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- … refreshing but without the ‘bubble buzz’.There’s nothing like a serious bout of flu to help you knock through your reading list.
- The last 10 stories tasted like sparkling water.
- The first 5 stories tasted like a sparking glass of champagne.
- Unfortunately….the rest of the stories failed to dazzle me.
- It seem every story got increasingly better!.
- These are the notes I made about the first five short stories.
- The children are not in the Xmas mood but Dad says: “TV of off until every piece of tinsel is on the tree!” Family life and on Christmas eve and relationship with wife endearing and told in details we all see around the house! – Absolutely terrific!! It seems every story gets better and better! Bravo Cate Kennedy, this was the BEST story! Like a House on Fire– Hilarious description of f ather who is chief child-care provider (…suffering from lower back pain)…while he gets the Christmas decorations from the attic…puts the tree in the bucket with bricks to anchor it. She remains the Rock of Gibraltar for her family despite her fears. Tender – Honest, often-hilarious perspective of family life with the backdrop of an approaching appointment for the mother’s biopsy. ” Haven’t felt this way in years…weightless.” The old man also gets at the desired but forbidden cigarette from this young cleaner…he’s elated and says “Your blood is worth bottling.” The matron keeps a close eye on our young girl when she lingers too long with her new friend: ”matron calls her in a tone of permafrost…she snaps in an enraged whisper.” The old man is whisked away by the girl for a surprise hot steaming bath.
Narrator is an 18 yr cleaning girl in hospital who establishes a connection with an old dying man. Laminex and Mirrors – wonderful….very funny yet touching. Trivia: Winner Queensland Literary Award 2013 short story collectionįlexion – excellent – great last sentence – wife-husband relationship.Īshes– excellent – great last sentence – son-mother and recently deceased father relationship.
Title: Like a House on Fire (15 short stories).