Yes I do choose books by their covers all the time. This one grabbed me straight away and so does the author and story. I thought some of you may be interested if you are let me know I have my own copy.
Marian Leatherby 92, is given a hearing trumpet by her loyal friend Carmela to listen in on her family who are planning to send her off the old ladies home that is ran in an almost sect type way where everyone (the old ladies only) live in story book cottages shaped like cakes or castles. She wonders why the couple who run the place are so fat while her food is rationed, her wicked friend has a great plan for her escape, I haven't finished the book so I don't know if she gets her wish to go to Lapland.
Leonora Carrington the author is fascinating, a surrealist painter and writer. British born and posh enough to be presented "at Court" she wanted to become an artist became interested in Surrealism, ran off with Max Ernst and had a wild time according to biographers and is still living, in Mexico, and also 92.
Anna
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