words done for today!

[erastes]

Had to stop, as I was hit by the sleepy stick and need to go and lie down (one of the big bonuses about being at home)

Did a bit of editing over the weekend, in preparation for the re-launch of Frost Fair (I will tell you all about this when I am able to do so, but can’t until the new publisher is ready) and was really surprised at the level of mistakes in the Linden Bay version. My fault entirely, I know – I am a bad proof reader.

Finished “the facts of life” by Patrick Gale this morning. It made me cry – possibly because I’m sensitive to tragic instances in books, but it’s not a keeper, for the reasons I gave the other day. It was all a bit too much “oh look at these poor middle class people who have had a couple of awful things happen to them while they live in their lovely arts and crafts house.”

Most of the trauma was off-stage, the daughter getting pregnant with not one, but two illegitimate children is hardly even mentioned, other than “la la la what a lovely bohemian sixties upbringing we had in our idealised commune” and no-one mentions any scandal, and no-one in the village is ever even mentioned. And Thomas, one of the most promising characters in the first half of the book is almost entirely ignored for the remainder – and Edward had a lot more reasons to be grateful to him rather than to Sally’s parents.

And you CAN’T will your husband out of your property btw. Perhaps it’s doable now, with “tenants in common” rather than “joint tenants” but I’m pretty sure you couldn’t leave your house to your daughter without a trust – and there was no mention of that at all – no mention of Sally’s Will at ALL in fact, so she’d couldn’t have left it all to Miriam. Stupid.

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