Flamingo: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, an exquisite novel of kindness and hope

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It's poignant and often relatable and I honestly could of read another 300 pages of this gorgeous novel. What the book does not have is Smith’s heavy artistic references (albeit the book is strewn through with 1980s music – particularly power ballads), her sometimes acerbic political references to contemporary crises, her complex and sometime hard to resolve side-storylines (this is a story which is rather – perhaps too – neatly tied up) or her fey visitors (although Daniel does talk to with rivers and with a ceramic cow). Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. Den ersten Stern hat das Buch auf den ersten Seiten verloren, denn ich habe tatsächlich überlegt, es sofort wieder zur Seite zu legen. Maybe the ending is intended as a happy one, but I was left wondering if history was about to repeat itself.

It’s also a rather sweet story of redemption and understanding that sometime the huge things we hope for, but are not ready to try for, can wait for us to be ready. We all go through lots of struggles in life and the characters in this book aren’t any different, but the important things are to ensure that we learn from our actions. I love Rachel Elliott's style, it pushed me into the world in which a flamboyance flamingos on the front lawn was charming. Kerry Fowler | Sainsbury’s Magazine’s ‘Book Club Choice’ for September 2022 ‘I honestly can’t overemphasise how much I loved Flamingo, I couldn’t put it down.As a gift for her husband on his eightieth birthday, Sherry is about to serenade him with her special a cappella version of ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’ by Foreigner. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, Flamingo is a contemporary novel that follows two families primarily over two different time periods.

Eve, for example, was such a centric part of the book but her character was given a weird send off (not a spoiler). The Lotus Readers ‘I loved this wonderful book so much, it made my heart sing and is all about love, kindness and being around people that accept you for who you are. December 22: I’ve just won a copy from the motherload fb group so will read before the meeting in February. Inspired by our illustrated books, Frederick the Fox and Maximus the Mouse, our new animal alphabet prints bring the magic to the walls of your home. In 2022, she co-won the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry, was a winner in the Poetry Society Member’s Competition, won first and second prize in the Second Light Poetry Competition, came second in the York Poetry Prize, been commended in both the Hippocrates Prize for Medicine and Poetry and the Verve Poetry Competition, shortlisted for the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, longlisted for the National Poetry Competition, and her pamphlet manuscript was highly commended in the 2021 and 2022 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition.Aber wer das gut ab kann und wen die narrative Vorhersehbarkeit nicht stört, dem wird der Roman gut gefallen. But one day something happens that rocks their world and family secrets come to light that affect them all, however not all of them are telling the truth. Nach Jahren des nachbarschaftlichen, familären Zusammenlebens geschieht jedoch ein Ereignis, das Eve Berry zwingt, mit ihrem Sohn Daniel erneut aufzubrechen . Kathryn designs and delivers Poetry for Wellbeing courses for adults in mental health settings, substance-misuse recovery settings, and prisons and she is the editor of two anthologies of poetry by new and emerging poets.

She loves dancing, swaying and swinging, jingling and jangling and fluttering her pink feathered wings! Kathryn Bevis is a poet and poetry teacher, founder of The Writing School Online, and was Hampshire Poet 2020-21. Next we meet Rae, still in 2018, but now in Norfolk, suffering the indignities of a family party for her father's 80th birthday.Helmed by Vice President and Publisher Margaret Anastas, the editor behind modern classics such as Fancy Nancy and Pete the Cat, Flamingo focuses on publishing commercial picture books from familiar names and debut creators.