52/6 #7 - Box 132
5/8/07 Box 132 by Alex Shearer
It’s odd reading a novel about attempted adultery recommended to you by Cheryl ‘Dalek Box Set’ Bardell* in her second or third letter, written to me in year 9 (We would pass them between classes and sit reading and writing responses in the afternoon’s classes. Except I’d usually avoid her until the next day so I could type mine. Think my handwriting’s bad now? You should have seen it then). I can’t fathom why I remembered the title of the book, so many years later when I found it for £1 in Bookthrift, 9 (Fuck, I’m old) years later.
Sadly the context is more interesting than the novel, which has ‘Really low-budget British Feelgood romantic comedy’ (Which will bomb at the box office) written in it’s DNA like a stick of rock.
* My one reader will at least remember her by that moniker.
