The Widow’s Tale - Mick Jackson
Not as morose as the title and cover might suggest, The Widow's Tale is actually a sprightly and often humorous account of dealing with loss, attempting to deal with the absurdity of the situation it leaves one in and the strange affect it has on how other people relate to the whole bereavement process. That's not to say that the novel is neglectful of the wave of deep feelings, the emotions, the sense of loss and complete dismantling of one's life that occurs, but at the same time it's understood that there's a necessity to deal with them and it's precisely the good old fashioned just-get-on-with-it manner with the widow in question here that drives and sets the tone of The Widow's Tale - even if in her case that means running away from it all after the unexpected death of her husband and sitting it out in a small rented cottage in a remote Norfolk village. Noting her impressions down in the form of a journal, the observations here are wonderful - lightly...