Hello, I hope you will take a look at my book,
Being Light. It's my second novel and was originally published by Orion about ten years ago. It has since gone out of print and I am bringing it back to life by publishing it as an ebook. It will also be available in print later on in the year.
Some of the characters from my first novel,
Alison Wonderland, crop up in Being Light as minor characters but you can read it even if you haven't read the first one.
Here's the blurb:
Roy Travers is swept away by a freak gust of wind while trying to install a bouncy castle in Brockwell Park, south London. Sheila, his wife, can’t understand why he hasn’t found his way back home. She begins to suspect that Roy has been abducted by aliens and enlists the help of Mrs Fitzgerald’s Bureau of Investigation to find him.
Sheila travels to Kent with Alison, a private detective. Together they build a missing persons advertisement out of pebbles on a beach, hoping it will be seen by the aliens who have taken Roy. But Roy was not taken by aliens. The truth is far stranger.
It had some great reviews in the UK press:
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Smith has a keen eye for material details, but her prose is lucid and uncluttered by heavy description. Imagine a satire on Cool Britannia made by the Coen Brothers. Times Literary Supplement
This is a novel in which the ordinary and the unusual are constantly juxtaposed in various idiosyncratic characters… Its airy quirkiness is a delight. The Times
A screwball comedy that really works. The Independent
Smith’s world is as wacky as Nicola Barker’s, but much funnier, less disquieting. Perhaps the Evelyn Waugh of Decline and Fall comes closer… She is a great snapper-up of unconsidered trifles… Wicked! Time Out
Smith’s second novel has a comic style with a clear, simple, buoyant prose. Irish Independent
An exuberant, acutely observed second novel. Shena Mackay, The Independent
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It's available
in the kindle store in mobi format,
prc from Mobipocket or direct from
Tyger Books in mobi or epub format. Other formats such as lrf or prc are available from Tyger Books at the same price - or PM me.
DRM-free everywhere except Mobipocket, which doesn't allow it.
Thank you
Helen