Lead Review
- Book: Cows Can’t Jump
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- Author: Phil Bowne
We read a huge number of books throughout the year. Sometimes we get a debut author with a stand out talent and I think this is one such example.
This is the story of Billy, who is living with his parents – post school – working as a grave digger. They are not his clan, they argue, he doesn’t understand his mother and his father distracts himself by boxing. They also voted in the Brexit referendum in a way that doesn’t impress him (the author has written that Brexit sounds like a breakfast cereal – which it indeed does – I am now forever doomed to think that, as you are probably too, now that I have shared that!).
He goes to work at a Summer Camp where he meets the indomitable Eva from Lucerne. He falls for her and although he hasn’t a penny to his name, he is determined to hop over to Switzerland in hot pursuit. At first she seems enamoured by the idea but then she promptly shifts the goalposts – as he is en route – and arranges a specific midnight meeting in Bled (that’s Slovenia), well East of Switzerland.
And this is the story of his adventures and of the encounters he has, through Switzerland to Croatia and on – eventually – to Bled. With each leg of the journey, his money gets depleted and all the while the clock is ticking.
This is a good and entertaining story, written by an author who has a terrific writing style. AND. Bled is now on my must-visit list, thank you Philip! I wonder what is next!
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