Skip to content

Tag: Sadie Jones

The Uninvited Guests

Leave a Comment

by Sadie Jones. An author with a jaundiced view of life. This book is ironically laugh out loud funny. A madcap Twilight Zone. Jones also seems to have a love of old “piles”. Here a cherished country manor called Sterne in a remote English setting. As in Laurence? Anyway, despite a rationale for her character, the mother was horrid. As was the mother in Jones’ most recent The Snakes. Most of the men are fuzzy and wishy-washy. The women are conflicted yet strong. A bit retro. The train wreck is… Read more The Uninvited Guests →

The Snakes

Leave a Comment

by Sadie Jones. Not about snakes. Not really. Literally. Okay. Maybe a couple. And a skin. Mostly about bad parents (snakes). Rich slum-lord developer British patriarch and his slithering beauty of a wife. Racist gendarmerie in France. Inept, too. A ramshackle hotel. A mystery with a few red herrings. A dysfunctionally banal couple. Pretty cliché. But hey. It’s summer. A pretty good read. If you don’t like happy endings.