Strewth! Bonzer news from Down Under, people, where Karen Chisholm of the rather fine AustCrimeFiction interweb thingagummy not only read our humble offering THE BIG O all the way through, but managed to stay awake for the duration! Fair dinkum, Sheila! Quoth Sheila / Karen (in excerpt, naturally, to spare you the boring bits about what she didn’t like): “The style of THE BIG O is slightly tongue-in-cheek, very rapid-fire, slightly wisecracking, slightly brittle and surprisingly vulnerable in some places. There’s a lot of crossing and double crossing of everybody going on; there’s a lot of charging around as you’d expect from a caper style novel … the book clips along at a tremendous pace … the dialogue … is snappy, stylistic and sometimes laugh-out loud-funny, sometimes snicker inducing; and sometimes a bit tear-jerking … it’s one of my favourite styles of escapist reading – the slightly lunatic caper, albeit this time with a twist in the guts at the end.”Thank you kindly, ma’am. In return, consider our fatwa on Marmite officially cancelled …
Don't you mean Vegemite? That's the down under name for the mite of the Marm, as I understand it.
ReplyDelete(Not that I am a fan, but I am forced to cohabit with quite a few of them -- it's the sticky knives on the worktop that really do the trick for me.)
Oh, and congrats on the review! Your due, naturally.
I like the upside-down book cover. Nice, subtle touch.
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