The Aunt Sally Team eBook Flick Merauld Beccy Blake
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A Highly Enjoyable Read It's the perfect lazy Sunday afternoon read, fun and entertaining whilst at the same time offering you emotional moments and a twist or two to keep you guessing how it's all going to end.
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THE AUNT SALLY TEAM - A Soap Opera
When Bill Green puts a notice in a post office window in Oxford, he hopes for a group of intellectually stimulating companions with whom to share long summer evenings playing Aunt Sally, a quaint, traditional English pub game. Instead he gets a zany assortment of characters, not one of whom lives up to his preconceptions.
Diana craves excitement after ending a comfortable but unchallenging relationship. But is she heading for trouble when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Dante Blackthorn? He’s handsome, charismatic and a feckless alcoholic and compulsive gambler, though his devil-may-care attitude and hazy sense of boundaries mask a sensitive and complex personality. His dissatisfied ex wife Beccy still hankers after him and his self-centred but vulnerable daughter Lucy hates the idea of a new woman coming into her Dad’s life!
Best friends Lissa and Bethany are pagan teenagers who have their own coven but want to meet boys and have fun as well. Which is fine till Liss falls for someone and jeopardises the friendship.
Meanwhile Jason, a delinquent eighteen year old, has been forced to play Aunt Sally by his Dad and Uncle, who hope being part of the team will keep him out of trouble. When Lucy and Jason are attracted to each other, things get complicated, especially as Beth has set her sights on him as well.
Elderly widow Vera needs to put the past behind her. Will helping Jason fill a gap in her life and begin the process of healing?
And Rashi’s family owns the George and Dragon pub where the Aunt Sally Team is based. He thinks his future is mapped out until he falls in love and is pulled between the culture he grew up in and the expectations of his Indian family.
With these and other characters thrown into the mix, the ensuing interactions and relationships become more and more entangled as the players progress through the season. From May Morning celebrations in Oxford to riotous Aunt Sally matches at idyllic Cotswold village pubs - with fun, drama, sex, romance and chaos along the way - by the end of the summer their lives will have been changed forever.
The Aunt Sally Team eBook Flick Merauld Beccy Blake
The very first thing that struck me about this story, right from the start, was the tone the writer took up. It feels and reads like a relaxed conversation with the author. At no point does your attention waver and it is a completely engrossing story.If i were to be told this story was based entirely on real people and a real event i would believe it. There are no tall tales of heroism or wild antics. It is a story of people who are geniune and have their ups and downs to be handled as best they can. The Aunt Sally game appears to be a lynchpin event that brings them together while their hopes and vulnerablities are explored by the writer with sometimes comical and sometimes sad consequences. Ultimately i found it to be very heartwarming and inspiring.
I think if you skip the usual genre you read and just take a chance on this then you will be glad you did. I know i was
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The Aunt Sally Team eBook Flick Merauld Beccy Blake Reviews
Not my usual genre, but I enjoyed this story and the style in which it was written. The story is a bit long, but I think necessary in order to flesh out the many characters, which was well done. I would recommend this book & I am looking forward to the next book, Aunt Sally & More.
Got off to a real slow start (and I never did quite figure out what the game was), but I couldn't stop reading this because I found myself really caring about all of this wide assortment of characters (except Becca. I still hate her.) Not being British and having never been to Oxford, some of the local customs/terminology etc slowed me down as well (which is not a negative--the book stays true to its culture). Funny, thinking back on it, I realize that each story line actually resolves at least on a hopeful note, and yet when I initially finished reading, I was overwhelmingly sad. Definitely one I'll keep mulling over for awhile.
A well written and interesting read. Not a mystery, action thriller,who-done-it or even a romance novel, although it's closest to the latter. The story examines the relationships developing between new players of the eponymous game. A tad too generous toward the goodness of human nature by my experience. Being an American, I had to guess about the meaning of a few English phrases that a Brit would know instantly but that added interest to me, and I enjoyed the glimpse of a small segment of English social life. It even prompted me to "google" Aunt Sally. I recommend it.
The story revolves around a collection of quirky characters who end up being brought together when they join a local `Aunt Sally' team. (Yes I hadn't heard of the game either but it seems to involve hurling sticks at a `doll' while downing considerable quantities of alcohol)
It's not normally my type of read and I did find it a little slow at the start but the novel was based around an interesting premise (with interesting characters) and this was enough for me to push through the first few chapters. I'm glad I did as I found once those characters came together the pace began to pick up and the story got stronger as it went along. Worth a read!
A fun read with a clever plot, likable characters and numerous interweaving story lines
I read all the time. Over coffee at breakfast, at lunch, in bed at night, so I'm used to picking up a book, reading a chapter or three and putting it aside for a while. Not this one. Once I started there was no place that allowed me to stop. I wanted to see what happened to the couples, to Dante and Diana, to Lissa and Rashi, To Vera and Jason, to the odious Beccy her spoiled daughter Lucy and all the rest. Merauld tells a complicated story of the lives that come together on the Aunt Sally Team without letting her reader get lost in the shuffle. Somehow she speaks of love and addiction, abuse and innocence, alienation and love, without a false note. good on you, Flick Merauld.
There's a different mode of reading English writing, and I don't always make the shift in a timely manner. I had read about a quarter of the book and decided I was pretty bored with it and would probably not finish it. But that night, I caught myself dreaming about it and writing about what I thought would come next. I woke up laughing and decided to finish the book, and I'm glad I did. The characters are wonderful, and the progression of alchoholism, denial and recovery is beautifully portrayed. I ended up truly enjoying the book and wishing I knew what was happening to the characters at the start of the next Aunt Sally season.
This worthy read begins with a posting looking for team members to play on an Aunt Sally team - a game played in British pubs. Bill who was looking to put the team together had ideas of a dedicated team to participate in competitions with other like teams. His hopes of this didn't appear too promising when he saw who walked in the pub on the first evening looking to join. He became more convinced of this as the weeks went by and some of the folks weren't showing up. Competitions were played and relationships were established albeit many unhealthy ones.
What drew me in? The relationships I knew the book was offering.
What kept me reading? The true to life personalities and relationships. Not all the relationships within are romantic; Some are friendships; Some are teammates. Sure most of the main characters were making terribly unwise choices but none of them were cookie-cutouts rife in most romance novels. When a book makes me feel, it's a good book and this one makes me feel. I found myself shaking my head at choices being made but was happy in how someone treated one character who badly needed encouragement. Ya, I was probably shaking my head more than not.
The very first thing that struck me about this story, right from the start, was the tone the writer took up. It feels and reads like a relaxed conversation with the author. At no point does your attention waver and it is a completely engrossing story.
If i were to be told this story was based entirely on real people and a real event i would believe it. There are no tall tales of heroism or wild antics. It is a story of people who are geniune and have their ups and downs to be handled as best they can. The Aunt Sally game appears to be a lynchpin event that brings them together while their hopes and vulnerablities are explored by the writer with sometimes comical and sometimes sad consequences. Ultimately i found it to be very heartwarming and inspiring.
I think if you skip the usual genre you read and just take a chance on this then you will be glad you did. I know i was
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