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Sandie Zand

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favourite books

Recenty loved:

The Divine Farce, Michael S Graziano
The Fall, Albert Camus
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Symposium, Muriel Spark
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh


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the sky is not blue

Sandie Zand

Chrissy returns home unsure whether she caused her friend's death in 1973. A dark tale of oppressive friendship and the fallibility of memory.


Photographer Chrissy returns home for the first time in 34 years, unsure whether she caused the death of her best friend, Pat, in 1973.

Her parents now dead, she plans to sell up quickly and leave. But the past returns, unbidden and cloudy. Elderly neighbour Alice and childhood friend Marion seem unable or unwilling to fill in the gaps. And Spencer, the nihilistic lover she assumed dead, is alive and producing commercial art for tourists.

Memories of events leading up to Pat’s death must be recovered if Chrissy is to find out what it is she's been running from all those years.

 

The Town that Danced

Sandie Zand

A barmaid’s curse, experimental ice-cream flavours and a glut of Chinese lanterns – what exactly is causing the mass insanity in sleepy Mardow-by-Sea?


Mardow-by-Sea is a town in quiet crisis. Nothing has changed in sixty years, except a dwindling in the numbers of holiday-makers coming to spend the summer.


A barmaid’s curse – that town residents might one day follow their own minds instead of living by committee rule – comes to fruition after she is murdered in the castle grounds of her lover, Lord Belafry, and people unwittingly find themselves acting on their inner voices.


When a harmless tea-dance spirals out of control, spilling into the streets in a debauched carnival that seemingly has no end, it becomes clear there are darker forces at work in Mardow-by-Sea. A prophetic vagrant and a rebellious owl seem to have the answers, but can Aelita – hired to promote the resort – decipher their clues and save the town before she too succumbs to the madness?


 

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karelkoninkrijk wrote 18 hours ago

Well, you speak latin so to see, which I don't. And I like 'The Fall'....

Fr. Ambrose wrote 18 hours ago

Hi Sandie - I'm okay. I've been pretty busy myself for the last 6 mon....

singapore wrote 23 hours ago

Gratias maximus tibi ago :) x

Ellie S Lee wrote 1 day ago

Just saying 'hello' - it's so rare that we're here at the same time. ....

Amanuensis wrote 2 days ago

Golly. You're too kind. I take credit for nothing. I'll admit ....

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I wrote 1 day ago

Very evocative and a lovely dreamy rhythm to the prose which fair carries the reader along - each narrator's voice carries that overall rhythm, there's no jolt when switching voice, yet each has subtle and necessary differences in tone and language. I wish I had time to read more of this, but I'm ba... view book

I wrote 38 days ago

I read twenty one chapters of this yesterday - had to force myself to stop as I was going out. Wow. This is an amazing story - your mum's story alone would make a book, what a fascinating woman she must have been. Then there's you and Madge... I love the alternating chapters, often telling the same ... view book

I wrote 65 days ago

Popped along to read a bit of this and devoured all you have posted and am now seriously miffed that it's all been left hanging at a crucial point! What's going to happen to the team, who are left staring into the barrels of machine guns? What's going to happen to Saul, who seems to be giving up? A... view book

I wrote 89 days ago

This is an amazing story. Janet is a true northern lass – tough, practical, determined and not in the slightest bit self-absorbed. This is no misery memoir, that’s for sure, and yet the tale it tells is a terribly tragic one. But amidst the sadness that Janet – with her loving family upbringing, her... view book

I wrote 120 days ago

This is like a Tom Waits song... there's something deliciously grubby about it - atmospheric and as another commentator said, it has a lazy feel. I read the first few chapters, then dipped in and out of a few more. There's also something of the John Irving tone here too... possibly you just succeede... view book

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