Lynnda Wardle 

A review of Vicky Grut's short story collection 'Live Show: Drink Included' (Holland Park Press, 2018) Published in Glasgow Review of Books "This collection could be described as a celebration of the mundane gone weird; [...] that moment when a character turns their head, looks away, trusts someone against their better judgement, the story shifts and we are in new territory." @VickyGrut @HollandParkPres @GlasgowRevBooks #BookReviews #VickyGrut #ShortStories

First published in Glasgow Review of Books The best reading experiences are journeys; books that move you from one place to another, their end marking the beginning of another reading exploration altogether. Deborah Levy’s two short memoirs I listened to in the summer on Audible (read by the wonderful, velvet-voiced Juliette Stevenson) were the beginning of just such a journey. Levy calls these works ‘living autobiography’ and in the first volume she describes traumatic child