The Cloud Forest

By: John Millard, S A Harrison (Designed by)

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Paperback | 31 January 2022

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192 Pages

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19.84 x 12.85 x 1.04

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One curious young boy observes the courtship of spiders as he contemplates life without a father. Another delivers tracts for the Lord's Assembly and stumbles into something awkward to do with adults. Yet another gathers stones to shroud a dead dog. A young man visits his disreputable, unwelcoming uncle to hear a curious tale. A medium finds herself rumbled when a spirit she conjures kisses and tells all. A wannabe Bonnie and Clyde go on a spree round the commuter belt. A former sex worker collides with her past. A singer performs to soldiers at a turning point in history.

There are inexplicable mysterious things out there in the cloud forest - concrete or lush - small moments of discovery, enlightenment and recognition.

Permeated with dark ironic humour and a melancholic sense of the absurd, these thirteen stories are fragments of the lives of their characters, who in being ordinary - honest or decidedly not - are exceptional.

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"Ranging from a petty crime spree to tales of spiders and beetles and butterflies, the stumbling emotions of a small boy to a kitchen-sink seance, John Millard's tales of family secrets and loyalty, deceit and trust share a heartfelt poignancy: the tenderness of domestic relationships mixed with bittersweet memories. The language is poised, even fragile, telling of childhood tragedies, teenage confusion, adult loneliness. These are gently perceptive stories with a keen eye for detail, crisp narratives that hit home - and in which, most unnervingly, an inexplicable eeriness occasionally hovers in the wings."

Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English, University of Macau and Honorary Professor, University of Exeter.

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