Feedback for The Dying of Delight
This is the chance for you to have your say.
I started this page because I'd received tons of feedback, both in email form and in threads on the Big Chill forum.
To be fair, the threads and the emails were directed at me from friendly well-wishing people, so they were more likely to be positive than negative.
Still, I think they speak for themselves. And now I'm throwing it wide open. Please do add your own thoughts and impressions. I'm always eager for feedback - be it good or bad.
You can also read proper reviews written by impartial professional-type people. They're rather good, too.
The book is now out of print. If you haven't got one yet, you can buy a signed copy of the book direct from me. This is the only way I get income from it. The publisher has ceased trading, so royalties are now non-existent.
I started this page because I'd received tons of feedback, both in email form and in threads on the Big Chill forum.
To be fair, the threads and the emails were directed at me from friendly well-wishing people, so they were more likely to be positive than negative.
Still, I think they speak for themselves. And now I'm throwing it wide open. Please do add your own thoughts and impressions. I'm always eager for feedback - be it good or bad.
You can also read proper reviews written by impartial professional-type people. They're rather good, too.
The book is now out of print. If you haven't got one yet, you can buy a signed copy of the book direct from me. This is the only way I get income from it. The publisher has ceased trading, so royalties are now non-existent.
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44 Comments:
June 2nd 2004, 6:14pm
so i finally finished the book, sitting topless in the sunshine by my bedroom window. which seemed appropriate. (shielded from innocent passers by, i hasten to add)
i was sitting in my attic feeling sundrenched and sexy which felt right for it even though by the end I was full of dark shivers that were spooky but also kind of thrilling at the same time.
i thought it was pretty Gothic, actually. and I enjoyed it. it really made me want to keep reading right from the start which is pretty rare for me. i really wanted to know what happened next. and i liked the drug descriptions very much - found it very refreshing to read something that felt realistic for a change, as well as effectively and evocatively written.
in terms of feedback, my highest plaudit is "it had me totally gripped, i couldn't wait to find out what happened next". seriously. (i think in storytelling generally that's the highest level to aspire to, where you CARE enough to find out what happens next) i just find so few books draw me into their world. and this did.
Kit Patrick
June 3rd 2004, 8:18am
The Dying of Delight...
Is really bloody good! Nearly finished it now and it's rollicking along at a cracking pace. Could hardly put it down to do any work this morning.
Nice work!
Viv
x
June 3rd 2004, 8:26am
I was well pissed off about having to get off the bus this morning. Why oh why are we wasting time developing weapons systems when we could be concentrating on eyelid books so you can read at work?
Duck
3rd June 2004, 9:21am
i too have spent every break this morning with my nose in it.
I'm not sure what i expected, as i have never actually known an author before ..... its very good, all the way! x
sunflower kate
4th June '04, 8:18am
I too am nearly finished - ended up like a wrinkled prune by staying in the bath too long absolutely engrossed.
I am loving the way you start to think 'oh right so that's that bit of the mystery solved' and you think you've got the plot sussed and then its whipped out from under you.
Very, very good!
Mel
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28th May 2004, 3:06pm
I am enjoying it muchly.
One of the things I like most about it so far is that the character's sexualities just are. There's no big 'I am Silver and I am a lesbian' thing, you just find out as the story unfolds.
Its also a perfect book for someone like me who reads too quickly cos if you skip you miss a vital bit and then you have to go back and try and work out which bit you missed so its slowing me down a bit.
I am also enjoying the dialogue - though in places its a bit like reading the Big Chill forum at its busiest and most wittiest. Fun but waring after a bit.
All in all a good lunchtime read.
Mel
xx
I have just finished The Dying of
Delight. I thought it was absolutely great.
I was expecting something completely different - even though I quite often listen to Woman's Hour (I always have Radio 4 on when in the car), I'd got a case of the mental stereotype (it's on Woman's Hour, so it's like this...).
It was also vastly different from the kind of fiction I typically read - my immediately previous four fiction authors were Alfred Bester, John Mortimer, Robert Rankin and Terry Pratchett to give a flavour, though I did read quite a lot of Ian McEwan in my youth.
What worked for me so well was the way you gradually built up the suspicion of what had happened, but kept it fluid enough to be uncertain to the end - the "three layer" approach helped a lot in that. I have to confess, when I first hit it I thought "unnecessary arty randomness" but I couldn't have been further from the truth.
It really vindicates for me how valuable it is to read outside your natural inclinations. When Penguin brought out those little 60p books a while ago they did a boxed set with 60 of them in, which I bought and read end to end on the theory it was a great way to read stuff I wouldn't dream of picking up off the shelf, and similarly it was a useful kick out of habit.
Anyway - big thumbs up for DoD.
Brian Clegg
(author of "A Brief History of Infinity" and many other popular science books)
Finished your book! Blimey, missus! The really weird thing was that Iâd left it for a little while (work reading getting in the way) and then picked it up at just the place when it all seemed really relevant to me. It was magic! What a rollercoaster in the end. Bloody hell. Absolutely brilliant work, Clare. More, please!
Anette Dal Jensen
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7th Sept 2004, 10:16am
I got shivers when she had her ârevelationâ. When she realized that she shouldnât be looking after people to the extent that sheâd mother them. You probably didnât even mean to write that â it was just the way I read it, but it was really powerful. Like, her own confusion and misery made it so she desperately wanted to help XXX. Little did she know, in the end, that X craved her help, too. Have you seen the film âBreaking the Wavesâ? Silver reminded me of an urban, modern version of Bess on acid. Ha ha.
Quite tragic though and I really didnât take to Niamh that much. Ha ha. I loved Milo though. Grumpy git.
There were a couple of other bits, but theyâre sort of part of the âwholeâ now so itâs hard to pin down. Oh, and âskan upâ? Hahahahahahahahahhahaaa!
Anette Dal Jensen
September 2004
i think 'The Dying of Delight' is a fantastic book! much more than a story, very innovative writing!
Maya Chowdhry (playwright)
September 2004
my mum's reading your book and LOVING it!"
Savannah Morris
7th June 2004, 9:38am
Bloody brilliant!
As I was saying to someone about it yesterday it was like having a laid table with loads of tablecloths on it and everytime I thought I'd worked the plot out Clare whipped another cloth away. And the clsoer I got to the end the faster the cloths were being pulled till even now I'm still puzzling bits.
I want to read it again now I know the ending so I can appreciate just how clever the plot is - how Clare plays with your assumptions throughout.
Without trying to sound too 'wanky' I have, by chance, been reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being at the same time (I always read several books at the same time - drives my boy mad) and last night as I got to the end of TULOB I was struck by some of the similarities of themes in the two books.
Destiny, control, co-incidence, the discussion of whether 'heavy' or 'light' is best and which one modern society is striving for.
It is a fantastic book, can't wait for the next one!
Mel
xx
13th June 2004, 6:39pm
I've just finished reading your book and I thought I'd email you and let you know what I thought of it ! The bloody cheek, eh ? :) Here goes...
So as not to keep the reader in suspense, forcing her to endure literally minutes of agonizing "did he like it or not" drama, let me first say that I genuinely enjoyed the book. No, really ! It took me about 4 hours to read it across two sittings - one hour last Tuesday when I received the book and three hours this afternoon. This is pretty good going for me (at least with non-technical works !). For the record, it took me about that length of time to get 30 pages into "The Life Of Pi" before giving up on it - so I hereby award you next year's Booker prize.
Not that it was all plain sailing, mind you. I found it quite difficult to get into without having a suitable frame of reference - and the parts written in the future tense were tedious to begin with. However, towards the middle of the book I found myself being drawn into it and by the end I was gripped.
Initially I mentally compared your book to the movie "Memento" (good movie, if you haven't already seen it then you should :) for it's fragmented narrative style - but that was a lazy comparison and, as I read on, I found a much better parallel. There's a movie called "Requiem for a Dream" (directed by Darren Aranofsky, who also directed "Pi") which I have in the past described as "Trainspotting without the laughs". Basically (and being deliberately vague so as not to spoil it if you haven't seen it - and you should 'cos it's great !), a group of people get involved in drugs in various ways and slowly but surely their lives turn to shit. The plot, however, only has passing similarities to your book. As the story unfolds, stylistically the movie gathers pace. As the character's lives spiral out of control, the film spirals with it and is a disorienting blur of brief scenes, quick edits and sparse dialogue. As your book continues, it seems to gather pace in the same way. Sequences are shorter and more disorienting (though not unintelligible), the prose becomes more stylised and clipped (I used to get moaned at by my English teacher at school for doing exactly the same thing !!!) and the storylines, past, present and future, collide at the resolution in a most satisfying way.
This may, of course, be total bullshit - but put Tom Paulin's accent on it and it lends it a bit of credibility ;)
So there you go. I loved your book.
Glenn Davies
9th June 2004, 11:07pm
I feel like going back and reading your book again, I read it compulsively because I needed to know what happened and who was Edna really (I guessed about half-way through but then you made me change my mind several times!), now I feel like reading it at a slower pace. I really enjoyed it!
Mandy (from Tmesis)
June 2004
Alison is currently reading your book at the moment and I'm next in line. She keeps lowering the book and saying 'Wow this is good y'know' then carrying on. So I'm looking forward to it!
Grant Randall
18th June 2004, 10:34pm
I did enjoy the book. I thought (smugly, wrongly) XXX was Silver right up to the end. which I am sure is what you meant the reader to think.
Samir Dawlatly
23rd June 2004, 5:18pm
I read your book over a weekend and thought it was very interesting and I didn't guess the ending (I knew somebody died but not which woman). So well done for that. It was interesting to picture your house and Bagpuss and the British Legion too. Who was the character of Andy based on? Was the 'handsome man in a kilt' your Ally by any chance?
A jolly good read and I've already given two copies away so that others can read it too.
Kate Williams
21st June 2004, 4:15pm
i've just read the chapter starring my car!!!
Although the woman that gets out of the car I recognised as definitely you, not me. :-) your council worker personna.
I enjoyed your book by the way :-)
Kept me guessing about who was dead in the cellar though!
Felt sure it was going to be XXX, and then she got up..
Andrea Thompson
June 2004
i read the book btw! very vivid acid fuelled headscrewy stuff - with some wicked wordage!
Susanna Glasier
1st July 2004, 8:52pm
I have a terrible habit at the moment of not finishing books, and always seem to end up with 3 or 4 on the go at once. So I disciplined myself and was determined to finish my current book ("No Logo" - great, if a tad heavy), before starting yours. Last night I picked up your book for an idle flick (oo-er), ended up reading a few chapters, and now I can't put it down.
Aaagh ! Looks like I'll never finish "No Logo" at this rate - it's been usurped, innit ?
So yeah, a great read Clare - I particularly identified with the scene in the office where the main character is having a heated argument with a right wing colleague. I think we've all been there....
x
Rod Devonshire
August 2004
Enjoying v much so far.
You're a novelist and no mistake. (can't stand Americanisms, but...)
Way to go!
Chris.
X
August 2004
I've just finished it, bizarrely, on the verandah of a cocktail bar
alongside a beach in Antigua.
I was engrossed in the final pages of one of the last few chapters yesterday evening when a large American said "excuse me sir but I if you don't come inside now you're going to get very wet", but I persevered and was the last
person under cover when the tropical storm broke a couple of minutes later. "Must be a damn good book" he said a bit later.
I'll echo that.
(I gave him the details and suggested he get it from those 'stards at Amazon btw.)
I really did enjoy it - do you think you've found your true vocation? I do. Look forward to the next one.
Chris.
X
I've just finished it in the park at lunchtime, sitting in the sun. I was late back from lunch cos I was desperate to finish it!
Briiiiiiiillllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnttttttttttt
I LOVED it. Well done you. You should be really really proud of yourself. I had no idea of the twist until it happened, I was even thinking, XXX can't be Silver cos YYY's met Silver...but I still didn't get it.
It was weird at times cos I kept remembering that I knew the author and that made me wonder how much of it was based on your experience...but that just made it all the better.
Anyway, enough gushing...glad to hear you're gonna work on No 2 and I hope you get to see some riches from No 1!
Savannah Morris
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Autumn 2004
I've spent half the w/e reading your book - it's very good. I was just up to the bit where XXX gets hit by the beam when my tram pulled in to the stop this morning, so I had to speed-read to the end of the chapter just so I could get off! Silver's spiralling is so well described - it's made me think a lot, having been the girl who leaves the good job at the IT company to pursue her destiny, realises she's not sure what it is, gets very depressed working in a part-time minimum wage job and ends up back behind a different desk doing a very similar job but in a slightly less alien sector... Not doing the compulsive tripping part was probably a good move though (mmm, compulsive eating for me!).
Jo Nightingale
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Autumn 2004
"Delightful delight"
Just a quick one to say how much I enjoyed TDOD which I finished a couple of weeks ago. As I don't read much fiction these days I'm no critic but I found it a really gripping read. The acid paranoia you conjure up towards the end is fantastic and I've recommended it to a friend who spent 20 years in the 'acid casualty ward'- a place that exists in the mind. Incidentally he's fine now. Your verbal imagery was very powerful throughout, excellent word play and some very memorable phases. In the end we all kill ourselves. Mind-blowing and profound stuff indeed. Keep up the great work
Cheers
John Crumpton
27th Aug 2004, 09:49am
I'm currently reading your book and REALLY enjoying it!
Its a bit strange tho, cos there's quite a few things in it I can strongly associate to. Is any of it based on true events? (Apart from the stone circle obviously).
Fantastic read!
Booraptor
24th Aug 2004, 11:26am
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your book. I started reading it last sunday and ended up staying in from the pub to finish it in one sitting - i really, really liked it. so thanks for writing it!
Sara Clarke
I have done my homework and read your book. A strange experience as my life has spiralled into mentalness that almost parallels the book.
I could relate to lots of the book in an uncanny way. I don't know how much of it is based on reality but I too had a penchant for taking lots of acid on a regular basis (not every day though as I built up a resistance to it). Maybe every week for a few years. Until it totally did my head in. Although I got away with doing it every year at the EG which was lovely.
Also one of the things that most blocks my creativity is fear of letting go too much and descending into madness. My dad is a painter and was quite mad (manic depressive and alcoholic amongst other things) for most of my childhood and we are very similar (his birthday is the day after mine so we share a star sign). He is from the Van Gogh school of crazy artists - he's mellowed now but he was really that mad a lot of the time. So I have become a control freak instead. I've never heard or read someone else voice that fear so it was interesting to read about it in your book.
One more funny thing, I liked the story about the hippy author doing a reading. I guess it is based on CJ Stone who I used to read avidly in the Guardian years ago. I read his books too - the first one starts with a festival that a friend of mine organised (and that I was at). Never met him but he seems like a nice chap. Last year by total fluke I heard that Jim Dodge was doing a reading at the local Waterstones. I went on my own (although I've given Stone Junction to everyone I know I couldn't find anyone free to come that night). He was nothing like I'd imagined him to be, a little bearded old man in sensible shoes with a speech impediment (or ill fitting dentures). I was expecting some kind of heroic looking biker or something. He did a reading about his dog's bollocks getting stuck in the plughole which was very funny and even better, a reading from the novel he's been writing for the last few years. It was some kind of magical detective story. At the end I shyly went up to him and asked him to sign my incredibly dog eared copy of Stone Junction. I was so in awe that I ran away afterwards. I wish I'd invited him back to mine for a drug binge but the babies were tiny and I don't think he'd have had it in him.
Oh also when I was reading your book I kept on thinking that you sound like a cancerian so I looked up the date of the moon landing and figured that you must be.
Love [anonymous]x
Note from Clare:
I've left that one anonymous, cos of the personal details.
She's right, the character Neep is indeed partially based on CJ Stone, who I've met (briefly) and is an absolute sweetie.
I'm also a big fan of Jim Dodge, who is another sweetie. And a poet.
She's right about me being a Cancerian, too. Which is weird, cos I don't even believe in that stuff.
November 2004
I was going to do loads on Saturday - mainly things involving spending money on things I didn't need and cleaning areas of the house which can wait.....
However I woke up after a hefty lie-in and picked up the Dying of Delight - I was half way through and from then on I found myself unable to put it down and read the rest in one sitting.
It was excellent, I got thoroughly immersed in it. Poor Silver - I loved Silver. That was so sad, things had gone a bit to pot for her but it seemed like she was slowly pulling her head together and she would have been okay in the end as she was enjoying herself with all her art and her new friend Andrea.
I had an image of Jonah being a big guy, built like a rugby player - sort of gentle giant just wondering around the house and letting himself in. :)
Twisty turney afternoon engulfing spend & cleaning stopping brilliant book.
If you're not already or you're at all unsure (and without wanting to sound all patronising or sycophantic) you should be really proud of yourself. YAY! for the author that is Clare Sudbery....
Now get writing!.........
That's all I have to say
Love and afternoons lost in a world you created.
Sarah Faust
xxx
8th March 2005
I'll give you my first impressions. Your book gave me a chance to say 'blow it!' to all the things I had planned on doing last night. So I lay in bed for three and a half hours reading your book and eating cheese and feeling naughty.
I think it's great so far (I'm almost at the end, chapter 25). To be honest, looking at the book I didn't think I'd enjoy it because I don't really like surreal stuff and I'm also not a big fan of thrillers but your book is really easy to read and enjoyable. I picked the mystery identity angle quite early, I think. Though I am hanging to know what becomes of Silver. The XXX storyline was inspired, I didn't pick it at all! See also: YYY. Brilliant. I was sitting on the bus reading and thinking how the character of ZZZ was so nice, because he was so chilled and just kind of drifted in and out and then felt slightly foolish that I hadn't guessed because as soon as I read the scene where she thinks he is dead a lightbulb tinged above my head and I immediately remembered the clues earlier.
I enjoy the way she talks to herself and puts herself down. And also how she often pretends there is a crowd cheering her on and thinking she is great when she does things. I loved when she was going around the round about.
Also I really like the way your chapters are numbered so it is quite clear that it is jumping between present/future. A lot of books like that don't do that and you spend half the book being confused in a bad way (ie not confused and puzzled about the story but confused because the story has been put together in a really rubbish way) but yours isn't like that at all, it's great.
Lisa Dempster
January 2005
I'm writing to say that I've read your book; what a stunner! It's very dark and clever. You've used some really good devices to build up tension and work the story into a mesh so that it hangs together well but keeps the reader wanting to turn over the pages. It made me go about feeling cold and scared for the characters. I also remembered how angry smashed people used to make me in the days when the dance drugs first came in. I never wanted to get away from reality as much as they did and I felt left out of the gang. Sometimes I couldn't work out what they were responding to because none of their experiences showed until they reacted to them. I really liked the way you got that across to the reader. The complex sexuality made me laugh. I've lived with characters as strange as any of the ones in your book and if we all opened our eyes properly we would see what an amazing range of ways there are of getting yourself sorted for a shag. As a psychiatric nurse I see all of it and love to campaign for people's right to do what they like and be allowed to feel normal. Well done for putting out something quite valuable in that respect.
Karen
5th Dec 2004
We had quite a high turn out the night we discussed your book, which was good, with several new members who had not had a chance to read the book beforehand.
To be honest several people found the narrative difficult to follow, although when people did like it, they really liked it, so it was a very mixed reaction. One person really liked your characterisations, finding Silver to be really likeable and sympathetic. People also really liked the cover!
Several people queried why your book had been published by Diva, as it is a lesbian press and there was little of this theme in the novel.
We had a good discussion about Diva books, as we had had another Diva author VG Lee to talk to us the previous month, who had told us how they are winding down their press, mainly concentrating on lesbian publising in general and if it is needed in todays society - the overall view was that it was important to support the lesbian press, if it is to continue to provide us with books which do not replicate the mainstream.
Best wishes.
Jo Harvey
Librarian, Reader Development
Brighton & Hove Libraries
[from a Big Chill forum thread explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]
One major good thing for me: resonance with the 'scared of becoming like Mum bit'
One major bad thing for me: the twist at the end I found unconvincing.
Kirsty Chestnutt
[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
Before making rash criticisms... i really enjoyed the book! and it has been a while since I read it.
I also found the ending a little unconvincing, and had pre-empted what was going to happen; which is a horrible personal trait, and probably nothing to do with the book!
Some of the descriptions of the mother reminded me of myself, which was interesting.
I loved the more ambiguous passages at the very end (am saying this - but it was ages that since I have read it... will look at it again tonight)
I know this isn't much of a critique, just a start until I get a chance to have another look.
Mrs Humm
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[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
Things I enjoyed about the book:
* I really enjoyed the structure of it. The future tense stuff was a real headfook to start with but once you got into it, it really altered the way you viewed the whole storyline. Like seeing an entire movie from reverse camera angle.
* I loved the Mother interludes. Really helped build up the tension.
* Your writing style in general is a joy to read. Silly bits of wordplay and munted conversations. It's like the difference between listening to a song for the music and listening to it for the lyrics. A lot of writers are all about the story and nothing about the writing, your book combined both.
Things that bothered me about the book:
* The ending was a bit of a let down. For characters who were so messy and unconventional, the ending felt neat and contrived.
* Some scenes felt like they'd been shoehorned into the narrative without helping move it along. In some cases I couldn't shake the feeling that there were events from your own experience which held some strong resonance for you but didn't quite translate through to the characters. Some of the latter scenes with Silver getting progressively more wasted for example.
Mark Brereton
[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
you already know i really liked it, but i have to say i found the first chapter a bit hard going as i thought the dialogue was a bit stilted to start with, but it seemed to flow better as the book went on.
but then again i think phillip pullman's dialogue is a bit stilted too.
i really liked the twisty ending though..
Sara Clarke
[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
Initially I found it hard to get into but that's more to do with me than you
The ending was a bit abrupt however I didn't see that twist coming to far in advance as i had been thinking that Edna was really Silver all along.
I love Silver - she's a great character and you get all of her in the book - warts and all.
I thought it was a great read and once i was into it I ploughed through the rest in an afternoon unable to put it down.
Sarah Faust
xxx
[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
i really liked the bit when the nazi stormtroopers abseiled down the castle walls " like soldiers looking to have a right go".
and the bit where Truckule di Avioncciaci lists his favourite seafood restaurants of Krackow entirely in semaphore.
no. i haven't read it. i shall buy and make amends. promise.
armando
[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
just finished it last night. loved it.
agree with Sara that some of the dialogue was maybe a bit stilted but I also agree with Mark that you have a great style, really entertaining to read in its own right as well as part of the narrative to a larger scale plot. lots in the rugs\control stuff that I identified with.
I thought the characters were well realised and 3-dimensional the fact that I found the two mains quite exasperating by the end is testament to that.
all in all bloomin good. when's the next one out then?
Jez Wells
[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
I liked the cat.
I found some of the dialogue a bit hectic at times and a bit clunky some of the characters voices weren't 'real' all the time somehow - I don't know how to describe this better but when reading a script the easier bits are where you know how to play a line and some of the characters some of the time I wouldn't know how to play the line - mylo I found difficult. But I liked the dreamier druggier bits.
I liked the twist, it kept me guessing right up to the end.
I liked the structure too - the past and future thing.
I liked Silver but I wish I hadn't heard you read her words first Clare cos then she just looked and sounded like you in my head. I found it a bit difficult to relate to how she went suddenly into not caring - a slower move towards irresponsibility would have been better for me - but maybe that's more of a reflection on who I am than the writing.
I enjoyed it though and my boy read it too and siad it was a good read, for him it was more 'beach reading' cos he likes really heavy books.
Mel
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[from a thread on the Big Chill forum explicitly asking for criticism, Nov 2004]:
I thought it was a brilliant (excellent in fact) debut novel, but I felt it was slightly hesitant and not willing to take chances. You could tell that you'd had input from others, because at some places it didn't flow, which I assume was when you'd have to change, add or shorten something you weren't quite comfortable changing.
I think the main thing to take from this debut novel is that you now have an audience. First novels are probably more about the author "getting out there" than the novel itself, which is probably why they're often so personal.
I cannot wait for your second, third, fouth and fifth novel, Clare. You are not constraint by not knowing if your work is indeed publishable anymore or, gasp, if people will like it! Now you can really loosen the reigns on that fantastic imagination and get carried away there. By the sixth, you'll probably not speak with us mere mortals anymore anyway. Haha.
Now stop looking backwards and look forwards you nugget. You *know* what you'd like to change if you could.
Or something less patronising. You know what I mean.
Anette Dal Jensen
xxx
July 2004
so, just as i got into the bath, the doorbell rings. now, normally i'd ignore it, but i'm expecting some books from amazon. sure enough, it's the postman.
ok, got back into the bath, taking "the dying of delight" with me. now, normally i wouldn't even consider reading in the bath when i'm getting ready for work. but even when i do, i'm usually pretty good about keeping an eye on the time...
whoa. is it that late already?!?!?
it's a cracking read so far, and i'm barely into it. so, thank you very much. :)
...
just read "Dying of Delight". i highly recommend it.
Rach
July 2004
I just finished it and I was very disappointed.............
........that it's gonna be too long a wait before the next one.
"It's a proper book and jolly good."
I bet that quote ends up on the back of the second edition ;-)
Nellie
July 2004
I missed my stop on the tube.
Mark Brereton