Chickens
Amazon.com Chickens
My review -
Tony's
girlfriend has just left him, telling him that he's socially inept. He is left
in charge of her three rescued ex-battery hens. He decided to fill the hollow
in his life by offering to join a mentoring scheme and befriending Justin, a young
man in care. We begin to see parallels between Tony's and Justin's lives and
watch as Justin takes himself rapidly off the rails. One aspect I particularly
enjoyed was Tony's emails to his ex in which he tells her the highs and lows of
his relationship with Justin. He saves them all to a file because she has told
him that if he contacts her she'll just change her email account. It’s like
having an invisible person in the story.
I
loved the interplay of characters here. Tony has his eye on the girl who runs
the mentoring courses. As the story progresses he gets his life together and
learns social skills and this is wonderfully observed and recorded. I read this
book in just a couple of days because the characters came alive for me and I
felt I needed to know the outcome. This is a great story and quite different
from the author's previous work. I do love to see versatility in an author and
Julie McLaren demonstrates it brilliantly.
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