Oxford from a different angle.

I was asked to review this book by the publishers.

I love Oxford and we try to visit regularly. This is not Morse and the world of culture and learning this is about seven people and the homes they live in. This is a different slant on Oxford- the real Oxford.

These people have secrets and as the story unfolds so do their secrets, someone maybe watching and there is a eerie feel to this but at the same time there is humour too. it is about morality and personal values.

The residents are students (Oxford has students in the less well healed areas), a bus driver at war with the world and students too, a family with a son, one with a fractious teenager and two Del boy characters. The characters stories are told by the others too so there is a different slant to this story. Be prepared for some shocks too.

The author ties up the story neatly like a parcel at the end really skillfully.

This is an author I have not come across before, checking to see if this is his debut novel , but this was not he has already published in 2014   Martin Harbottle’s Appreciation of Time- which I am now reading now.

Great story telling, great writing for an author up there in the top ten.