Raving

Description:

Michael Darby combines prose, a play script and poetry in this jaunty account of Raving and its inhabitants. An early visit to the town by Queen Victoria inspires a game of theatrical cricket. The Field Club is the backdrop for an assault on the Council's mismanagement of the environment, at Brown, Department Store Thatcher-inspired managers, meet their match in a battle with a display artist turned bookish terrorist, and through all serenely flows the river providing the excuse for a hilarious re-working of the story of Jason and the Argonauts.

Raving mixes fact and fantasy, past and present, heartache and violence in a book which offers undemanding but at the same time intellectually, stimulating reading. And in Paul Cox, the publishers have found the perfect illustrator, his, colourful images cleverly evoking the hustle and bustle of life in the town.