tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post3867228984694230198..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: The Seaside, the Seaside! Beachy reads for August from Ali Bacon Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-23705845758172644142017-08-23T08:59:29.697+01:002017-08-23T08:59:29.697+01:00Filtered through the lens of time, I remember chil...Filtered through the lens of time, I remember childhood seaside holidays as warm enough to spend the day encrusted in khaki-coloured sand as we ran in and out of waves without sun cream or arm bands. For two years, home was Southsea where the fairground was our Saturday morning stomping ground. Aged six and eight, we were free range children, our parents lying in the weak sun at the other end of the beach, nonplussed about our safety.<br /><br />The setting for my third novel, The Red Beach Hut, is a compilation of those flat, faded, grey resorts that are crumbling into neglect as Brits head for the sun and sangria of Majorca and Morocco. Who wants whelks, wind and fishing from the end of a paint-peeled pier? Yet Neville, the boy who walks along the sand of just such a beach every evening while his mother services 'clients', is content because he knows no different. He's absorbed in searching for 'unhurt' shells, shouting his name in an echo-cave, watching his favourite green boat anchored in the bay and worrying that it might be lonely. Maybe Neville too belongs to a time that is fast running out like the grains of sand he tries to count but which literally elude him.<br /><br />The Red Beach Hut is published on October 1st by IQ Press. Thank you, Ali, for giving it space here and for your eloquent review on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/35329869-the-red-beach-hut <br />Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05005734234181150665noreply@blogger.com