This topic will enable us to share traditional stories with woodland settings like Little Red Riding Hood whilst also allowing us to think about natural woodland animals and what it means to be nocturnal. Our topic for Term 1 will be titled 'In the Deep, Dark Woods'. We are really pleased to welcome everyone back to school and although some of you may be feeling a little worried, we are sure you will quickly settle into the new term. She lives in a beautiful part of the world and gains much of her inspiration from walking her badly behaved terrier Horace, in the Derbyshire countryside.We hope that you have all had a fantastic Summer and managed to rest and enjoy the sunshine that we had. Tina loves to write and has won competitions for some of her short stories and poetry. In need of a purpose after a terrible year that has left her reeling, she finds it, albeit in a way that ultimately endangers her life. Like many women of her age, the main character Fran has lost a sense of who she is beyond being a wife and mother. After researching she discovered just how prevalent the problem is in rural communities. She wrote the book after her interest was piqued by police investigations in the UK Midlands into County Lines Drugs operations. In a Deep Dark Wood reflects her belief that scratching below the surface of ordinary lives can reveal a rich seam of material. Many thanks to inviting me to be part of # damppebblesblogtoursĪfter a life dedicated to bringing up a family, taking a social science degree, working as a lecturer, a trainer and more recently an independent celebrant, Tina addressed her burning need to write a novel. The dog is usually my favourite character in books, but even so, Buddy is extra special. I wish she lived next door to me, helping with the dog and bringing me never-ending rounds of banana bread (no doubt much better than the ones I made almost daily during the first lockdown).īut of course my favourite character is Buddy, the terrier. Tash, her hairdresser and friend is eccentric and larger than life and Mel is appropriately cold and hard. Her husband Laurie is OK, in spite of certain things or should I say thing he has done and I love the relationship with her children Flynn and Alice, probably because I can relate. I really love Fran, in spite of her being very naive and suburban (notice that I didn’t say middle-class because so am I). This is a very well written book with some great characters. But I would have told my husband or at least taken someone I could trust into my confidence. If I had witnessed something so awful, I would want to know why. In a way though, I can see why she has done it. What’s worse is that she doesn’t tell her husband as she knows he will be horrified at her intervention. Fran is a natural helper, but unfortunately she is no Miss Marple and she puts herself in a dangerous situation, one which she does not understand until it’s too late. The police don’t seem to be doing much and for some bizarre reason, Fran befriends Mel, the mother of the murdered boy. It’s a peaceful suburb where she lives with husband Laurie, not the kind of place where you expect to see a murder being committed. She watches in horror as the killers kick away the box he is standing on, a noose around his neck. Where to start! While walking her dog Buddy, Fran witnesses a teenage boy being hanged in the woodland behind her house.
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