Tuesday 27 December 2016

Immortalised in print

"This is a work of fiction and any similarity to places, events or people, living, dead or unconscious, is purely coincidental."
But of course any writer draws on the people they encounter in life as inspiration for at least some characteristics of the people they create. Happily, for this reader at least, Warwick and Fru have made those coincidences funnier by not disguising some of the names in the insane old people's home in which we have both worked and that forms part of the plot.
I laughed.
I laughed a lot.
That alone is a good enough reason for me to recommend this book. True... it relies on broad, black humour but if you can't laugh at yourself, at life, at illness and at death then you are in danger of taking yourself far too seriously.
Matron take note.

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