Heaven Can Wait is Cally Taylor's debut novel published by Orion.
I laughed frequently enough to average out to one laugh per page. The novel is 375 pages long and if you believe in the adage that "laughter is the best medicine" then this book should be available for you on perscription.
You may end up calling me psychic (but never psycho please) because I'm going to predict that Cally's going to become a hugely popular novelist worldwide and very very quickly.
4 comments:
Splendid! I shall order a copy. Thanks for the review.
Great review, always nice to hear about a book that makes people laugh!
Sounds like a great read! If you know the author, Denyse, I'd love to hear about their process of writing Heaven can wait. How did they find it? Was it a labour of love or an stroll in the park? Did the idea spring forth (almost) fully formed or was it a slow process of discovery?
Hi Skycycler! Thanks for your questions.
I wrote the first draft of 'Heaven Can Wait' in 3 months and 3 weeks. I wrote almost every night and was very driven as I was determined to write a complete novel and not abandon it part way through (as I had with my previous two attempts). The idea wasn't totally fully formed but I did know what happened in the first 9 scenes, I knew what happened halfway through and I knew the ending. I also, and I think this is really important, knew my characters. That was important because it was up to my characters to fill in the gaps between A and B and B and C and lead what happened!
Compared to my second novel (I'm currently doing my editor's edits) my first novel was a walk in the park. I think it was because I'd thought about it for a long time before putting pen to paper and because I was writing it for me and a sense of achievement rather than because I was under contract! That's not to say I didn't enjoy writing my second novel but writing the first one gave me a lot more of a buzz!
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