The Facts of Life (Gollancz S.F.) [Hardcover]

Graham and I have worked hard to promote this book within the area that it is set and the area he lives. A launch party was held in the Coventry Tourist Information Centre. It attracted a lot of local media (press and radio). Thisparty secured interviews for Graham on BBC Radio Leicester along with interviews in all the local papers (Coventry Evening Telegraph etc). All the local papers have promised a review of the book. Two Meet the Author evenings were organised in Borders Leicester and Waterstones Coventry. These consisted of ajazz band, a little free booze and the opportunity to talk to Graham about his books. Both were very successful and both bookshops sold out of books as well as receiving orders for more. Reviews so far have appeared in SFX.More are due in Starburst, The Alien on Line, Infinity Plus, Time Out and Locus.The G

THE FACTS OF LIFE tells the story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the second world war. Presided over by an indomitable matriach the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the blitz, war work and on into the hopeful postwar years and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical and the world of the fey.

Graham Joyce was born into a Coventry mining family and now lives in Leicester. In addition to writing he teaches a Creative Writing course at Nottingham University.