graham joyce

I was first attracted to this novel by a review which described the setting; a British seaside holiday camp in the early 1970s. I have no personal experience of staying in one of these but they were very much part of the popular culture when I was growing up, with Butlins and Pontins the two...

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/09/graham-joyce-1954-2014/ Horrible news. I had the luck to hear him read from Some Kind of Fairy Tale a couple of years back; his writing was absolutely magnificent.

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