A.B.Wells is the not so secret pen name of
Alison Wells who has been shortlisted for a number of literary awards including
the Hennessy and Fish awards. Alison has also been published in a number of
e-zines and anthologies. Housewife is her first novel published last year and
launched in Hughes & Hughes; the novel can be purchased through Amazon and
in selected bookshops. In her A. B Wells persona Alison has crafted a witty,
weird and wonderful book that is almost impossible to pin down with anything as
mundane as description. The basic premise is that housewife Susan Strong is a
harassed mother of twin boys who lives a life of cooking, cleaning, bath time
and general drudgery when one day she is visited by a strange man who claims to
be her Fairy Godfather or Fairly Dave as he likes to be called. Dave explains
that Susan is losing pieces of herself and he wants to help. As Susan and her
twins Rufus and Pluto are dragged through weird dreams and strange alternate
realities they discover that a ruthless Spinner is trying to destroy the
universe. He needs to be stopped. Alison's tale is inspired by her love
of physics and science fiction, it features household objects with minds of
their own and evil gnomes and geezers. Susan time travels back to her awkward
teen age self and forward to a wrinkled white haired old lady. Alison poses
deep questions about life and its meaning, about our destiny and the choices we
make but they are wrapped in the surreal and funny tale of Susan and Fairly
Dave. This book won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but if you enjoy the surreal
humour of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams then this will have you laughing out
loud.
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