We live life forwards, but understand it backwards.
It’s a personal journey, either way.
The characters in this story collection are looking back into the half-shaded landscapes of memory. Most are getting on in years, but young voices appear too, in stories uplifting and regretful, comic and sinister, poignant and optimistic.
Common ground is that moment of realisation – eventful, fleeting or veiled – unearthed during a journey into the past.
What’s in your bag, mister?’ asks the small boy in ‘A Bag for Life’.
See for yourself.
Will ‘Ruby, the Silver Surfer’ learn to cut and paste and save?
Should ‘Billy the Quid’ sell up?
Can Frank Smith cope with being an ‘Old Man in a Young Pub’?
Why is Lydia ‘Sleepless in Southampton’?
