Dottyville edition by Jenny Norris Literature Fiction eBooks
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Jennifer Greenaway has spent the past twenty years estranged from her alternative mother, Gypsy. When they are less than enthusiastically reunited, following an outrageous series of events which force daughter to care for mother, Jennifer discovers Gypsy’s village to be far from normal.
If sunbeam diets, breastfeeding teabags and winter solstice sacrifices weren’t enough to scar a regular person, Jennifer also finds herself placating confused teenage daughter, Lizzie; reuniting with first love, Oscar; and battling her own antagonistic feelings towards her mother.
Is Jennifer’s attitude towards Gypsy really a punishment for the unorthodox childhood she was made to live, and ultimately ran away from as a teenager? Or is it hiding a deeper hurt and a darker secret which goes all the way back to that day in summer when she disappeared?
Dottyville edition by Jenny Norris Literature Fiction eBooks
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Dottyville edition by Jenny Norris Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I loved this book, made me laugh out loud. Its hard to believe that the strange goings on in dotty ville are actually all based on fact.
Cant wait for the next one
April.B.
I loved the often humorous and surreal conversations between the three generations of women, and in particular, the reaction of Jennifer's daughter, Lizzie. to her new age surroundings. In her words, Dottyville is "simply awesome, wicked, wow."
If you think you have a chaotic life, just read Dottyville! However, despite the unimaginable and sometimes stomach-churning things that happen, this is truly a `feel good' story. Woven into the laugh out loud goings-on, the intergenerational relationships and believable dialogue keep it grounded. Suitable for almost any age, I would heartily recommend this book and can't wait for the next in the series.
In an interesting reference in Jenny Norris' new novel, Dottyville, we are told the phrase was conjured up by WW1 poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon to describe Craiglockhart War Hospital where both men were receiving treatment. It is certain that they would be delighted if they knew the name they had devised had been resurrected and used so aptly here.
Anyone who has had the experience of visiting Glastonbury or Totness, or is familiar with the writings of C J Stone will have had an inkling of our society's alternative culture, and anyone who hasn't could do no better than to drop into Jenny Norris' fictional village where everything new age leaps out of the pages. After the deluge of 'chick lit' et al, this author could be said to have created the genre of 'new age' lit, and what tantalisingly promises to be a series of Dottyville books.
But Dottyville is much more than a series of amusing vignettes and stereotype 'far out' folk, for Jenny Norris has created a humane and plausible tale. The book's narrator, Jennifer Greenaway is a slightly chaotic but down to earth single mother, and the author has skilfully managed to avoid the deadly trap of making her annoying, patronising, or just someone we just don't care about. Together with her sassy and streetwise daughter Lizzie, the pair have a rather bizarre series of mishaps before being summoned to the aid of Jennifer's ailing mother; a thoroughbred old hippy and the original earth mother, Beryl Armitage, or Gypsy, as she likes to be known, complete with Peruvian culottes and soon they are in the village, or Dottyville.
It is soon apparent as to why the title is so fitting as we have shamans, magic gems, crackpot therapies and herbalists seeping out of every corner with Jennifer and her daughter trying to make sense of the seemingly mad world they have entered, while all the time trying to cope with the marvellously cantankerous and exasperating Gypsy and her caravan. As the story unfolds we meet amongst others the wonderfully irreverent Cockney Carole - Gypsy's carer, Costume Crissie, The Sheep Lady and many more who still think time has stopped in 1967. As with the main protagonists, there are no cardboard - cut - out characters, nor are any of the set pieces as in the hilarious scene in The King Arthur public house contrived or awkward, and it is obvious the author has paid a great deal of time researching this quirky world.
But Jenny Norris' book contains an underlying sub-text which we are drawn into throughout the story, beginning with letters to her eldest daughter, a sort of off-stage sleeping character who we never meet but propels her mother to reveal in sketchy form the events of the next chapter, and which form a preface to each one. And as the book unfolds we glimpse that the alternative life favoured by some has all the same problems the rest of society holds, and far from freeing the individual can sometimes entrap them. As the male characters are introduced; Oscar, Mr Andrews and Danny O'Sullivan, Dottyville begins to reveal and join together all the threads of Jennifer's past and the final denountments bring all the strands of the book together in a satisfying conclusion.
One of the funniest and memorable nights I spent was at a Spring Equinox held at Stonehenge and as the fire burned and the stories flowed we entered a magical world spun by the keepers of the faith, but at first light the embers sparked no more and the dream had gone. Fortunately, in Jenny Norris' book the dream can be relived over and over again, and may it continue.
I'm confused. This story was very odd and I couldn't understand it. The dialogue was hard to follow and did not make much sense to me. I barely finished the first chapter. Sorry, I tried.
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