You can find the full review in Books Section of The Observer dated 14 April 2024.
You can also download a reasonable chunk onto the Kindle App. The style is very much akin to that of theadventuresofcedric.substack.com written by my lovely 35 year old granddaughter.
Anoushka Warden has been about a bit when it comes to getting attention from the media and, from what I can deduce, she is 38 years old or thereabouts. She has also managed to earn money from being up front and very personal about herself, hence her ‘first novel’ written in the first person, ‘I’m F*ucking Amazing’.
She covers territory I recognise as my own geographically and more besides, albeit 6O-65 years ago, bits of which I have written about and described as ‘auto-fiction’. Anoushka tempts me the go the whole hog, in my own style of course but no less explicit. The question is could I, a 80 year old male, get away with it?
Well, I guess the only one way to find out is to give it a go, so watch this space!
I do have permission and here is the proof, signed off by my loving wife…
Thanks to my starting work at fifteen and joining a trade union, then the Wembley South Young Socialists shortly after, by the time I reached sixteen I was no stranger to knicker elastic and could get a girl off before either of us knew the word ‘orgasm’. It would be another 11-12 years before the word entered my vocabulary, by which time I had been married a couple of years and I would guess that I have peers who have gone to their graves never knowing the word, whilst Anoushka Warden throws it around like confetti!
I have been suffering most of the past week, on and off, from jaw ache, which moves around my face. A dental check-up in February identified the need for some root canal work if a tooth was to be saved. The other option was to have the tooth out, but this current bout of severe pain is my second, so I telephoned my dentist this morning to tell her I had changed my mind and when I see her on Thursday she can take what remains of the tooth out. I have been overdosing on co-codamol in an effort to live with the pain. At the moment laying on my back doing nothing seems to work best.
Reading the story below hasn’t helped!
Vulnerable dying after not getting antibiotics at dentist, say doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/vulnerable-britons-dying-not-given-antibiotics-dentist-infective-endocarditis
Then along came a good news dental story about how you might survive the above: How infective endocarditis deaths among dental patients can be avoided
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024
/apr/02/how-infective-endocarditis-deaths-among-uk-dental-patients-can-be-avoided
I have gone eight years without any serious dental work and my teeth are still my own. For an octogenarian I’m not doing bad and I have been lucky to have a NHS dentist all my life.
Well, on this good news I will end this post done on my iPad whilst on the sofa (a first).
I wish you good teeth for the rest of your days.
🐰O L O BUNNY