FAO AItch

[susiecutiemincepies]

Oh DO email Emily! I have loved all of her books. Which one do you get a thank you in? I've just read one about a school reunion. Loved it as much as the others. My mind has gone blank on the title of it.

I can heartily recommend any of Emilys books to any Mnetter. I'm not sure I've actually read them all actually, but would like to!

by all means get her to send me any of them Aitch

Also, thank her, for getting me back into reading at bed time recently. It has SAVED me in the small hours when the pain in my back has been un bearable. I've been able to just pick up the last 2 books I've read of hers, and vanished into the world she creates. Exactly what I need to do, takes my mind of it all a fair bit..anyway, its encouraged me to read at these times, so please send her a huge thank you!

[gigglewitch]

curiosity : (aka nosiness) Emily who??

[expatinscotland]

now i'm intrigued and going to try one of her books after i finish 'the tenderness of wolves'.

any recommendations for the first-timer?

[gigglewitch]

oh c'mon expat.... looks like you know emily who

[expatinscotland]

i do??!!!

[expatinscotland]

sorry, am in the middle of emailing our former neighbour to nail down holiday plans as to when she and her son are coming to visit.

[gigglewitch]

ok

so you dont then.
and i thought you knew everything

[expatinscotland]

I'm not as savvy as Aitch.

Or anywhere approaching as good a writer as she is!

[gigglewitch]

so shall wander into bookshop and say "i'd like a book by Emily please".... presume not bronte but no wiser than that

[susiecutiemincepies]

Sorry, its Emily Barr.

I was recommending her books on here somewhere, and Aitch said she knew her and would tell her of my recommendation...

I've just finished one called "Out Of My Depth."

All of her books are a real cant put down, page turner read. They appear to be really lovely, easy to read, easy to get absorbed in stories, but as you get into them deeper, they all have a real macabre, slightly un nerving twist to them.. but in a good way

One of them left me feeling quite horrible ( not sure that is the right word at all ) as I read it, and many times I thought, why am I reading this? However, I couldnt put it down, until finished. All of her books, without exception, have really left an impression on me, in some way. I still often think of the characters in the one i've just finished. Does that make me odd?

I would recommend perhaps, Backpack as the first read. Only because it was the first one I read

Anyway... have a delve, you will lose yourself for a fair few hours

[motherinferior]

Oh, and Aitch, I've plugged her new one in the mag I'm working on.

[Aitch]

oh that's really cool, MI, she'll be absolutely thrilled. what mag?

we need to see her ont the Richard and Judy book club thing, she'd be BRILLIANT on it as she's rather funny and gorge along with everything else. or maybe the book club here, i'm sure she'd be delighted to do a webchat. (she's scared to join here as she knows she would become addicted immediately and debtors' gaol would follow). how does the book club work on here? i'm so out of it reading-wise that i'm still on Philip Pullman, that bloody astronaut's wife and Alan Bennett's last-but-one.

susie, i emailed her to tell her about the thing you first wrote and she was so pleased, said it had indeed made her year. i think it must be so hard to be a lonely writer of novels. plus, she's pretty impressive, three kids and still manages to knuckle down and Make Stuff Up.

(oh and thanks, expat, i'm not a writer though, just a tappity-tappity hack. you're a writer... just hurry up and get those books coming, release that poetic sould of yours.)

[Aitch]

(is sould a freudian slip or a straight typo?)

[gigglewitch]

thank you susie

will read!

[motherinferior]

Aitch, email me and I'll let you know!

[Aitch]

argh i don't have your email... would you mind emailing me at aitch at baby led weaning dot com?

em's back from her hols now and is DELIGHTED and THRILLED as predicted, she's writing her latest and it's motivated her no end. susiecutie, she'd be pleased to send you the new one coming out, she says, if you want to email me your address.

[susiecutiemincepies]

Oooo, yes please lovely lady

Will email you at the above address. Thank you SO much, made my day!

[EmilyinFrance]

Wow, susiecutie, thank you so much

I can't tell you how much this thread has motivated me out of my January slump. Cheers!

Emily

[susiecutiemincepies]

More than welcome lovely

Cant tell you how much the books have helped me

Truly they have. Unexpected i'm sure to hear, but things are blooming tough for me at the mo, with back pain, and there is very very little that helps, or takes my mind off it. Luckily, I have found a good therapy just need a few more written now, and a bit longer maybe??

[elkiedee]

Emily if you're still around, or Aitch otherwise, I've quite enjoyed reading several of your books too, most recently one of your early ones about a woman who has made a new life for herself in Australia. I think I found the motherhood aspects particularly interesting as it's the first of your books I've read since my baby was born instead of before.

Which one's about a school reunion - is it newer or is my memory going? I've not kept up so much with what's coming out since motherhood kind of took over my life back in May.

[susiecutiemincepies]

It called "out of my depth'. also enjoyed the Australian one. might re read it actually