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Prose: ...stuff I never told you...

Prose: ...stuff I never told you...

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesAutism Spectrum DisordersGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0648298566
ISBN13: 9780648298564
Publisher: Linda Ruth Brooks
Published: Apr 12 2018
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

There's a randomness and whimsy to this collection, and anyone familiar with Linda, will expect exactly that. It is also represented in the cover art-a zentangle, aptly name 'Goldfish in the Garden'.

Prose begins at a nurses' reunion where the usual entertainments slip away as Pathfinder Robyn amazes with a tale as disjointed as ever was told. Brooks relates the in-between stories, the ones best described as 'stuff I never told you.' Walking down an Adelaide street carrying a box and kicking a hammer in an effort to carry the things left behind by removalists. A patient Indian Postmaster's hilarious explanation of the parcel post system to an insistent customer. There are memories of a muddy creek, a barbed wire fence and the time she was maid for a day at an elegant mansion in leafy upper-crust Sydney's North Shore. Untold stories from nursing days. A top-lofty son is embarrassed by his gentle mother's dementia and receives a lesson in grace. A vigilante tenant prunes a hedge and the neighbourhood is not amused.

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