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Undoubtedly one of the funniest novels you'll read this summer Daily Mail
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At thirty-nine, Liberty Turner, mother of an illegitimate and nearly grown-up son, and daughter of a flamboyant father who had never grown up, realised that she had no talent. Once, in more prosperous times, her books had been published. Now, as relentless rejections pulverised her every effort, she faced up to the whimsical truth that while she was absolutely bursting with the creative urge, the talent just wasn't there. But as she began to observe her friends and neighbours in the village of Tollymead (not quite the idyllic community that everyone wished it was) she noticed that there were different kinds of creations. Evelyn Brooke, her eccentric and idealistic neighbour, chained herself to condemned oak trees and fought against polluters of the countryside. The vicar, resenting his congregation of middle-class - apparently - well adjusted parishioners, sought longingly for a real social problem to deal with. Even Nancy Sanderson, magistrate and secretary of the Women's League, was eventually to revolt against her life style and create something of her own. As Liberty stoically continued her progress through harvest lunches and creative writing classes, she waited for a rival creation of her own to emerge, and when Oscar Brooke moved into the village, she thought perhaps she might have found it.
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The author has said elsewhere that this book was a kind of reverse 'what if?' Usually 'what ifs' (a very common starting point for writers from Dumas to Dickens and onwards) are 'What if it all went right instead of wrong?'. A Rival Creation is, 'What if it all went wrong, and I couldn't make it as a writer after all in spite of desperately wanting to be one?' It was published after Cobbold had had a massive success with the divine Guppies for Tea, so is extremely interesting from that point of view. It turns out she wrote it when Guppies for Tea had not yet found a publisher and it is filled with longings that will be familiar to any unpublished writer. Liberty Turner lives in a village troubled by strange undercurrents, and at the mercy of her awful (but beautifully drawn) narcissist of a father. She seems to be at the beck and call of the various other somewhat deluded local eccentrics as well. The question posed is, how can Liberty reconstruct herself after serial abandonments and the disappointment of rejection by the publishing world she so desperately wants to re-enter? She does, with considerable bravery, and you should read it to find out how.
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