VILLAGE DREAM by FRANCES GILBERT
Today’s Book of the Day is a superb collection of short stories from top Indie author, Frances Gilbert
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In this story collection Frances Gilbert has created a village, cozy and picturesque, but also a place of brooding, even menacing events, where history lives on. If you travel to the middle of England maybe you will find just such a village. Step into the village shop and someone may sell you a tea cake and share a tales of times and people long gone, yet oddly, still present.
INDIETRIBE’S REVIEW OF THE BOOK
Fancy living in an idyllic English ‘chocolate box’ village, but can’t afford it. Don’t worry, find out who’s away, break in with your girlfriend, enjoy a night’s stay and sneak off in the morning. Keep doing that and you’ve suddenly acquired a collection of time share dwellings. Nobody will be any the wiser – not even the village snob who thinks she knows everything. Not really, she doesn’t even know her hubbie’s having an affair.
Fancy getting rid of a resident who doesn’t add to the idyllic ambience, why not conduct a reign of terror against her, and help yourself to her favourite things while you’re at it?
Fancy becoming a cat burglar so you can share the wealth of your neighbours? Or a musician finding himself attracting ‘groupies’?
Fancy living quietly with your husband and ignoring the other villages? No chance. You’ll get ‘shanghied’.
Add a smattering of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, mysterious gypsy curses and a visiting author’s parallel world and you have all the ingredients necessary to create a not so typical old English village.
Frances Gilbert has brilliantly managed to combine ten short stories, where the characters pop in and out throughout the book and inter-relate regardless of which story you are reading. A concluding chapter neatly ties everything together and the reader is left wanting more…always a sign that the book will be a success.
I highly recommend this collection of stories.
Village Dream is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
