Heinke

Heinke

Tuesday 30 March 2010

One of the Reviews

BOOK REVIEW
CAMPING WITH WOLVES - Heinke Pauly
Heinke Pauly, born in Germany, has led a colourful and somewhat surreal life which is reflected in her humorous writings. After stints living in Manchester, the Hebrides and Edinburgh, she found herself in Spain a few years ago and has been writing ever since. Her book is based on a travelling and camping adventure across Spain retracing the footsteps of a dead poet that she had fallen madly in love with. The poet was Laurie Lee and the seminal work that turned her head to mush was As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. What follows is an hilarious escapade of her adventures and misadventures along the route. She has a wonderful way of drawing the reader into her odd, offbeat world. From cultivating a tortoise on her upper lip and having semi-lucid conversations with her dog Misty Blue, (pictured above) to spending her nights with Messrs. Whyte and Mackay, peeing up trees and sitting in toilet blocks in empty campsites playing her electric organ and singing at the top of her voice, she lives the free life of a funky-monkey grandmother on the run. Ignore the printing errors (publisher‘s fault not the author’s) and you have a rollercoaster journey through the strange and colourful kaleidoscopic domain of Ms Pauly. 


2 comments:

  1. Great review - I know I also enjoyed it.

    Rob Innis
    Deputy Chairman
    TWC

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  2. Found more reviews here

    http://www.shelfari.com/books/13118363/Camping-with-Wolves-On-the-Trail-of-Laurie-Lee/reviews

    They like it!

    TWC

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