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| Three Loony Months by Sally Odgers |
Three Loony Months is one of the Bandinangi Books series, which also includes Five Easy Lessons, One Weird Week, Three Missing Days (aka Ex-Spelled) and Kayak! as well as other peripherally-related books such as The Magician's Box and Spiral Stairs. In This one, George is horrifies by the electricity bill for the end of the autumn quarter and forces his reluctant family to cut costs and earn money, ably abetted by Justin. Justin tells the story, ably abetted by George. As the blurb begins...
What do the following three things have in common? A Vegetable Vampire called Venus, a Great Dane called Hans Broggen, and a building contractor called Mr Sawdust. Nothing except that they all spend three loony months infesting the Archer household in Bandinangi.
It is dedicated to MJ, whose bathroom floor came first. It took me a while to recall what the bathroom floor had to do with proceedings as, after all, this book is celebrating its silver anniversary. I do remember realising, after I wrote it, that this was a recession book... the zeitgeist when I was writing it included a lot of people with scary electricity bills and a lot of people trying to find, or save, money. Initially, I was going to call this one Getting Things Clear.
The cover is one of my favourites. Coincidentally, the picture of Justin on the front looks quite a lot like my son did at that time.
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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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