The Smith Family Diaries is a collection of four stories told in journal entries, with each incident being told three times over, from three points of view. The POV characters are Abigail, her daughter Rebecca and her son Connor. There's an incident with an heirloom tablecloth, a washing machine and the eldest brother (Bennet's) mobile phone, the affair of Biddle, the aunt's retriever which escapes and tangles with a German cyclist (unless he's Russian or French), a fire alarm at the school, and, finally, a lost phone and a cartwheel competition at the beach. It's no one's fault that things go wrong... truly! The tone is a bit like the Bandinangi Books series, possibly because the stories are told by three members of the same family.
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Sally is Sally Odgers; author, manuscript assessor, editor, anthologist and reader. She runs http://www.affordablemanuscriptassessments.com and Prints Charming Books. (Sally is me, by the way, and I am lots of other things too, but these are the relevant ones for now.)
The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist. If you enjoyed a post, or want to ask about any of my books or my manuscript assessment service.
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