Review of "The Help"

Written in three voices (maids Aibleen and Minny and the autor Skeeter) very engrosing and absorbing story. Paints a clear picture of life both as a maid and also as an independent minded person growing in a stifling environment of friends and conventional expectations and not knowing what to want.

Review of "Black Swan Green"

Engrossing and captivating both in picture of inter-child relationships (heirearchy of status etc) and view of adult relationships and wider social observation and comment (gypsies, Falklands etc)