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Thoroughly enjoyed Tom Fleck, which I found well displayed in my local bookshop. If at any time you are planning on leading a tour of Flodden field please let me know – I would like to join it. Thank you for illuminating a period of history of which I knew too little.
I kept thinking while I was reading Tom Fleck – Harry must have been watching closely when he was working in the television industry. It is a novel and not a screen play but it feels like it would give all the directions needed for casting the actors, choosing the locations, directing the action and the camera shots. I assume that the historical details are right as Harry would know or find out.
I am not a patient reader. I was dyslexic and so read as little as humanly possible as a child. When I started to read for enjoyment, I read only poetry because there was no waste, every word counted. Late I graduated to plays; again every word counted. Then came non-fiction. Finally I began to read prose fiction but I would skip passages that ‘set the scene’ with great detail. The effort was not worth it. I did not skip any of Tom Fleck’s passages because very few words were wasted. To me the prose flowed.
Good luck to the book.
This is the first time I’ve been able to get online for five days. I’m now sitting in the Railway Hotel, Faversham, Kent, with a half of Shepherd Neame and internet access.
Re ‘Tom Fleck’:
Thank you, Janet for that reassuring affirmation from your fine mind.
Hi Harry, got the book from the site you indicated. All I have to do now is find somewhere nice and quiet to read it. Still very hot over here, so will probably be a winters reading for me. Regards
That is good to know, Tony. The grape harvest should make some fine red if Perth is so sunny – so long as the gallas (sp?) keep away.
The photos and text are inviting – wish I was there watching the daffodils bloom. Best of luck with your novel Harry. I’ll look for it the next time I’m in a book shop – none in exile sadly.
Good morning Isabel – the daffodils are indeed in bloom. It will be hard to find ‘Tom Fleck’ in a book shop unless you are in Whitby, Melrose or Selkirk, otherwise he remains a denizen of Amazon until he becomes better known.
It’s a great book, Harry. 🙂