Novels
There are two novels in progress (allegedly) so far. I say two, but occasionally I think there are five. Alternatively, there are two novels and 3 rather packed short stories. (In fact, there are 3 novels, none of them finished :-/ .)
Assuming Positions is the first novel. It was finished - finally! finally! - and then I decided to pick it apart (lordy) ... so it is now 2/3 finished and, annoyingly, probably better for the unpicking. Then, having picked it apart, I picked at it a bit more (it sounds a bit like a scab, doesn't it?) and, in 2021, it didn't quite make it onto the Bridport Prize longlist but it did get to the final 10% which was rather exciting.
It's a coming-of-(retirement)-age comedy, set in the south of England in 2002. It's also about love. Actually it's about what happens when people who haven't fully left abusive relationships behind now find that one of their party needs care.
The Old Girls is the working title of the second novel. So far, it looks like this →
It takes some of the minor characters from Assuming Positions into the past but without the aid of time travel. Clever, or what? (what, probably). It's a story about female friendship, female judgement, and the strange natures of Anglo Saxon and modern Britain - including a very weird burial in a back garden and a nurse trying her level best to rip off her older neighbour. As it's also about amateur archaeology, this is the point where I insert the terrible, old (how appropriate!) joke about real archaeologists never throwing in the trowel. You may now groan.
The barely-even-embyronic third novel (as in, it exists only in my head, which is a slightly odd place for an embryo ...) is about a group of people in their mid 80s in 2050. So far it's making me laugh. (It may only be about 2 people. Who knows?)
© Lorna Easterbrook 2016-2021 All Rights Reserved
Top image: Front cover for 'Book of Nonsense' made by Lorna: leather and fabric on leather (with apologies to vegan readers)
Assuming Positions is the first novel. It was finished - finally! finally! - and then I decided to pick it apart (lordy) ... so it is now 2/3 finished and, annoyingly, probably better for the unpicking. Then, having picked it apart, I picked at it a bit more (it sounds a bit like a scab, doesn't it?) and, in 2021, it didn't quite make it onto the Bridport Prize longlist but it did get to the final 10% which was rather exciting.
It's a coming-of-(retirement)-age comedy, set in the south of England in 2002. It's also about love. Actually it's about what happens when people who haven't fully left abusive relationships behind now find that one of their party needs care.
The Old Girls is the working title of the second novel. So far, it looks like this →
It takes some of the minor characters from Assuming Positions into the past but without the aid of time travel. Clever, or what? (what, probably). It's a story about female friendship, female judgement, and the strange natures of Anglo Saxon and modern Britain - including a very weird burial in a back garden and a nurse trying her level best to rip off her older neighbour. As it's also about amateur archaeology, this is the point where I insert the terrible, old (how appropriate!) joke about real archaeologists never throwing in the trowel. You may now groan.
The barely-even-embyronic third novel (as in, it exists only in my head, which is a slightly odd place for an embryo ...) is about a group of people in their mid 80s in 2050. So far it's making me laugh. (It may only be about 2 people. Who knows?)
© Lorna Easterbrook 2016-2021 All Rights Reserved
Top image: Front cover for 'Book of Nonsense' made by Lorna: leather and fabric on leather (with apologies to vegan readers)
