Kate, I'm enjoying coming across your work. The images are sharp and the main characters strong. I can imagine this working on film and that perhaps indicates your habit of short paragraphs - each is rather like a shot. Each two sentence paragraph wants to stand alone and say look at me. For ... view book

Cathy your experiences need to be heard but I'm not so sure the misery genre is going to help others. I wonder that readers indulge in other people's pain and confirm their own prejudices and experience but don't necessarily seek real change in their own lives. You've written the book so you are a s... view book

You've a good story here which by the end of chapter 4 has brought out the problems of the town and its people epitomised by George beating to death Lizzy. In the tradition of English dark humour, Tom Sharp and his Blott novels perhaps and, you might not like this, Midsommers Murders, I will read on... view book

Nathan. I like a lot of this. It is relevant and will become more so as the impact of the welfare changes begin to affect people with mental health difficulties. Your writing is good on illustrating Gary's OCd, his relationships with other people and his thought patterns but I find your use of other... view book

Hi Warrick, thankyou. Your pick up on the fractured style is encouraging. Good question by the way.... I do think I mean 'demonstrated your care' - this illustrates a distance between the client and the carer and points to a bureacratic anxiety of quality assessment. This becomes clearer as the nove... view book