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LitFit
 18 Apr 2008, 13:08 #31635 Reply To Post
Title : Gotcha (the novel)

Author : Howard Thomas

Genre : Historical, Literary Fiction

Review Extract from Review By: Linda

"Gotcha

Howard, this deserves to be in the top ten. You have created a mixture of despair, hope, humour and tragedy in a few thousand words. Setting it around the time of the Falklands War was a good choice. It created a definite time and place. A time that will evoke many memories.

In this story you’ve given us a taste of despair, hope and humour. There are some wonderful scenes. The opening with Wayne's Gran was a real hook. Please, please, put more of her in your story. She sounds wonderful. In fact I think I’ve met her once or twice! You could have centred a whole book around Wayne and his Gran. A brilliant combination ..."


Synopsis
It’s 1982. There’s a war brewing in the South Atlantic and there’s conflict afoot in an East London adult literacy class. A stammering loner, a trouble seeking punk, a vicious racist, an Argentinean exile and their sexy, liberated teacher wage their own tumultuous battles ...
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JohnnyVee
 18 Apr 2008, 13:35 #31639 Reply To Post
Quote: LitFit, Friday, 18 Apr 2008 13:08
Title : Gotcha (the novel)

Author : Howard Thomas

Genre : Historical, Literary Fiction

Review Extract from Review By: Linda

"Gotcha

Howard, this deserves to be in the top ten. You have created a mixture of despair, hope, humour and tragedy in a few thousand words. Setting it around the time of the Falklands War was a good choice. It created a definite time and place. A time that will evoke many memories.

In this story you’ve given us a taste of despair, hope and humour. There are some wonderful scenes. The opening with Wayne's Gran was a real hook. Please, please, put more of her in your story. She sounds wonderful. In fact I think I’ve met her once or twice! You could have centred a whole book around Wayne and his Gran. A brilliant combination ..."


Synopsis
It’s 1982. There’s a war brewing in the South Atlantic and there’s conflict afoot in an East London adult literacy class. A stammering loner, a trouble seeking punk, a vicious racist, an Argentinean exile and their sexy, liberated teacher wage their own tumultuous battles ...


Have to agree - this is incredible writing

well done Howard - keeping everything crossed for you!
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