Weirdo By Sara Pascoe

 

Weirdo by Sara Pascoe- general fiction  

Written in the first person this tells the story of Sophie who is working in a bar and as a guide on the London tour buses. She has been to Australia, ostensibly to see her father until she realised he was 5 hours flight away from where she was, not realising how big the place is. She is in debt big time on her credit cards and her life is rather a mess from where she is standing right now. Of love and life and the ups and downs therein.

I felt for Sophie almost from the word go as there is a vulnerability about her and a naivety as she struggles through life. It’s a journey through her days and how she sees the world which maybe makes us think about our own position in it. It’s weird, it's wonderful, it’s good and sad and happy and mad. It's perhaps an acquired taste for the writing style as at times it's rather disjointed until you realise this is how Sophie’s mind works. A jazz style if you will with bursts of sax and piano and then adagio for the strings. A different read, a brave one, most certainly unique and weirdo!

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