The Manuscript: A story of revenge

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Take a ride on the wild side with Edith Scott, a journey covering her escapades, conquests and her writing career. A character that will leave an impression. When fiction becomes fact and the story written is unravelling in real life, it makes a unique twist. When author Edith Scott switches genre to write a book about war and men, she bites off more than she can chew. After learning some seriously hard lessons from men in her life who treated her poorly, Edith decides to write them into the plot. One by one she kills them off with delight. Jo Burston's Rare Birds launches world's first women-only talent agency in Australia - SmartCompany". SmartCompany. 22 September 2017 . Retrieved 14 June 2018. Bloom is an advocate for women and there is quite a feminist lean to the story but not all Edith’s male interests are cads. There are those that simply make wrong decisions and one that is totally chivalrous.

Each encounter has its own flavour and drama. Like sliding doors, two scenarios sometimes play out piquing outcomes. What a great and intriguing book. Loved the raw and flawed characters and the journey to places not many of us have been. Each encounter has its own flavour and drama. Like sliding doors, two scenarios sometimes play out piquing outcomes. What a great and intriguing book. Loved the raw and flawed characters and the journey to places not many of us have been. Set in Sydney, Paris, London, Berlin and Kinshasa in the Congo, The Manuscript is Lucy Bloom’s debut novel and has all the Aussie context and whiplash humour of acclaimed television show Rake combined with the style and unexpected violence of Killing Eve. It is a novel about the delicate nature of relationships, the ruthlessness of karma and the blurry line between truth and fiction. Bloom was born in 1973 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Bloom was married in 1995, separated in 2015 and divorced in 2019. She has three children and lives in Sydney, Australia. [3] Career [ edit ] But Edith will never know that real life is dealing with them in a parallel reality too brutal for words.

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Simply said, I can’t make up the mad stuff that happens to me, so I put some of it in a book and from that foundation of truth, I wrote a killer novel. You, dear reader, will never know what the truth is and what is pure fiction from my kooky brain. Neither will my mum. Take a ride on the wild side with Edith Scott, a journey covering her escapades, conquests and her writing career. The grit in a good novel comes from the truth telling of charming and horrid observations of real life, real human detail and actual happenings which give a plot the fertile garden from which the story sprouts. Meanwhile, the succession of deaths of several supporting characters who she perceives have wronged her occur outside Edith's consciousness and are curiously interlinked with each other. I was left wanting more explanation for what was going on, what the underlying meaning was, but none was ever forthcoming. Me: I have not misunderstood Lucy. There were things that I liked about your book and things I did not, simple as that. You did not like my opinion and that’s on you. I invested time in reading and reviewing your book respectfully and I articulated the elements that I did not like. You also know that I invested time in attending to your launch and promote your book, even after I had read it and formed my opinion about it. I truly hope you don’t treat other readers like [you] have treated me. This speaks way more about you as an author, than me as a nobody reviewer who posted an opinion on a book.

Anyone can make up romantic meetings. Almost none of that description is true. Only the invitation of an ‘ice cream and stroll’ is real. I thought it was so charming I couldn’t say no.

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Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books. Find out how in this guide. She goes on many dates, falling for some and simply befriending others. When some of the men in her life treat her badly she decides to kill them off through her characters, obtaining a literary revenge. Little does she know that karma is dealing with them in real life.