![]() ![]() There's something eerily wrong about them, even for Wonderland creatures. But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects-the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. She's also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she's curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao's teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. ![]() s wishes that she stop all that 'nonsense' and become a 'respectable' member of society. She'd rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her Aunt Vivian's lively salon, ignoring her sister'. ![]() What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late? Alice is different to other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. Unbirthday (Disney: a Twisted Tale #10) (Paperback) ![]()
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![]() Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead-and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. ![]() Now she believes her clients deserve no less.Ī woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. ![]() Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife…īut as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. ![]() ![]() He grew up in the titular town, and he has some bad memories of it. All human life is here, as the saying goes: and they all want to know who the stranger is that's just moved to town. We're given a vivid description, details and foibles, before the town is populated with a cast of characters to rival any soap opera. Jerusalem's Lot is the main character here, a warm-up for what King would later do with his beloved fictional towns of Derry and Castle Rock. After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself. The most impressive thing about the book is how long it takes for anything really to happen. ![]() ![]() Good job that Salem's Lot was – and still is – a hugely impressive novel, then. So, when Stephen King went from the quasi-plausible abuse-terror of Carrie to vampires, there must have been some worried readers (and, probably, publishers). Readers of the debut want to be satisfied by the follow-up readers who heard about the first but didn't bite want to be wowed by the concept enough to pick it up and those who hated the debut want you to fail. ![]() The expectations of what you'll deliver – especially off a success – are phenomenal. ![]() |