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FRANTIC Synopsis:

Seventies survivor Frances Lynn ruthlessly chronicles the psychotic highs and lows of Alice, a young English girl who escapes London at the tail end of the Sixties for a sojourn in San Francisco. She quickly discovers that the psychedelic world of tie-dye and joss sticks belongs to the previous decade when she becomes involved with a glitter daubed, sprawling theatre group, leftovers from the insular Haight-Ashbury crowd. Alice gets sucked in beyond her head, but just when the crazy theatre group's popularity overdoses, she goes over the top and is shipped back to London.

By now, the early Seventies are in full decay, as is Alice. She continues her downward slide by falling in
obsession with a fragmented member of the Art World. Their exhausting fling, fuelled by a cocktail of
opiates is interrupted by repetitive bouts of insanity, like a San Francisco acid flashback. No
holds are barred in this frantic saga of drug-fractured psyches - and it's hard to guess who will stagger on into the eighties.

FRANTIC Review:


'From heroin to Lithium and back again..before finally arriving in a village called Sanity on the other side
of Blissland.  There may be some survivors out there who could enjoy the powerful regression therapy this book has to offer.

An informative read for would-be celebrity hunters,historians, people with various degrees of bi-polar
disorder, mental healthcare workers and most of all pre-teens who want to give their grand parents a heart attack.

Unless those grand parents belong to the afore-mentioned survivor group, in which case I suggest they get extra copies of FRANTIC to form a domestic study circle.

It's so full of visuals that reading it becomes like watching a movie. A fast and funny reading experience
which left me wondering and pondering about what happened to all of us who lived through that purple
haze era.'

Written by Ulla Ward de Mora.
 

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CRUSHED synopsis:


Door and her twin sister get along - just about. But Door has misgivings. She is tall and thin like a
beanpole, her sister is petite and beautiful. How on earth can they be family? Door starts to believe she
is from another planet – or else the rest of the family is from outer space. Read the stirring saga of
the ungainly sibling who suddenly turns into a beautiful swan – and the incredible secret of her birth!


The review on CRUSHED is:


'Every once in a while you read a book that you wouldn't normally choose, and get blown away. This is
what happened to me on reading Crushed. It is a fairy tale that Grimm would have been proud to have written. Dark things happen in an otherwise familiar world – you believe you're reading a children's book, but find yourself questioning your own imaginings. The tight use of language – the narrater's voice is as Grimm as the characters – takes us inside the darkness of the children's minds as they try to cope with their dysfunctional family and their teenage angst. The plot unfolds in an otherwise apparently uncontrolled stream of consciousness, leaving you wondering if the author's words are leading events, or events leading the author. Altogether an assured and fascinating debut novel,' written by Andrew Palmer.
 

 

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