REVIEW: THREE THINGS ABOUT ELSIE

THREE THINGS ABOUT ELSIE
By: Joanna Cannon
Publisher: The Borough Press
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4/5
Publishing date: Expected 2018


Florence is eighty four and lives in sheltered accommodation. Her potential to keep coping there's currently beneath overview by way of the personnel, and the threat of being moved to Greenbank hangs over her head like the sword of Damocles. daily lifestyles is disrupted with the advent of a new resident- one that bears a great similarity to someone in her beyond lifestyles, and he or she units out to analyze the whys and wherefores.
There are times while this novel feels too bleak to undergo, and others when Joanna Cannon’s sparkling, chunky talk and experience of amusing compensates. As within the trouble with Goats and Sheep, the characters right here spring to existence, although it takes a while, and curiously, the writer spends as an awful lot time growing the apparent below-achievements within the lives of the group of workers, in the form of pass over Ambrose and handy Simon, as she does in her examine of the residents.
even as the conclusions drawn at the mark we go away by the lifestyles we stay is comforting, this sneak preview of ways confusion units in is troubling. Did i love this? sure, but now not all the time. this is concept scary for a reader of a sure age, however nevertheless manages to be humorous, touchy, unexpected and entertaining.



the writer has superbly conveyed the impact that assembly diverse humans will have on our lives and irrespective of our responses or actions, suitable or horrific, it does no longer outline us. we're all precise folks who do have something to contribute to society, whether or not we ultimately find it or now not. it's a pity developing old can be any such perilous journey and locating yourself one of these difficult exercising.

I finish with the blurb for this e-book from Borough Press as it sums up this novel flawlessly. "here are just three things you may learn from this book: 1) The nice threads of humanity will connect us forever 2) there may be so very lots extra to all of us than the worst factor they've ever finished and three) Even the smallest life can depart the loudest echo."

Joanna Cannon, first-class selling debut creator of The problem with Goats and Sheeps provides every other warm and endearing novel this time approximately locating your destiny in existence and developing vintage.