Friday 9 May 2014

A Review That Made Me Smile

Reviews of The Upside-down Jesus and other stories are beginning to trickle in. I thought I'd share this one from Kevin Cadwallender.

The Upside Down Jesus and other stories  by Karen Jones.
ISBN 978 1 291 77155 8

Sometimes wonderful things happen when you read a new book, which makes reading seem worthwhile. Karen Jones’ book is one of those wonderful things.

Populated by the bizarre characters of her imagination but fuelled by the real characters or close relations of people we recognise in our own lives. The book steps easily between the profound and the surreal with a deft writing style that flows gently
through obsession; disconnection, askew observations and a yearning for lost things, disappeared things, which float in and out of life.  Never over written or hurried the stories move slowly through life’s idiosyncrasies, not pointing and shouting but showing and observing. Often darkly comic, often deeply moving they resonate and offer a sometimes disturbing, sometimes tender view from the rooms we inhabit with the shadows we try not to think about in peripheral vision.

Kevin Cadwallender May 2014