Incorporating elements of fairy tale and legend into her portrayal of Britain in the 1990s, the author of "Jay Loves Lucy" and "I Believe in Angels" tells how artist Caz Hewson finds a living history in northern England that helps her to come to terms with the tragedy of her past.
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A government grant takes lesbian artist Caz Hewson north to Newcastle and away from "the five, nearly six, best years of her life," spent in a London house shared after college with six art-school friends. She surprises herself by staying in the northern England city for years and transforming the last in a series of apartments--a reeking, filthy, rent-subsidized flat in the middle of post-Thatcherite blight--into a clean, freshly painted environment decorated with mythological dragons, flying pigs, and other whimsical creatures. Into her new setting come new friends, some earthly, some of another realm entirely; some many years her senior, some her contemporaries; and one from the past whom, with a survivor's guilt, she dreads confronting. Told extensively in British slang and regional idiom, this meandering story of finding warmth, community, vitality, and hope is a welcome addition to lesbian fiction. Whitney Scott
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This review is from: Skyhook in the Midnight Sun (Masks) (Paperback)
A great work by Fiona Cooper. I really empathized with Caz and felt her pain and loss as though they were my own. A simple, well written book that deals with both the fairy tale and the realistic side of life.
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