183 Times A Year by Eva Jordan
Although 183 Times a Year is Eva Jordan’s first novel I read All the Colours In between, her second book, before reading this.
First novels aren’t often as good as later work, a writer improves as they practice their craft. I was not therefore sure what to expect of 183 Times A Year.
We are introduced to Lizzie and her blended family, their daily struggles and Lizzie’s challenges in caring for them. It is beautifully told and her finely drawn characters inhabit the imagination of the reader with their presence. The mark of a master story teller for me.
It is a cracking read, a brilliant first novel, as excellent as, All the Colours in Between, itself a masterpiece, certainly one of the best books I have read.
Time Will Tell, Eva’s third novel, is in my “To be Read” pile and I fully expect it to be as good as Eva’s other two books.
My fiction reading is usually crime or espionage novels and some science fiction, my nonfiction reading, mainly history.
Eva’s books are ones that in the past I would not normally read, these are a departure for me.
I am pleased to have read 183 Times a Year and All the Colours in Between, they are fantastically well written books and more moving than I thought possible, certainly for a man of my advanced years.
Eva Jordan is an exceptionally good writer, I look forward to seeing more of her work. if you haven’t read anything by this talented lady you need to remedy that straight away.
