Why a Booktrail?
Short stories of midnight musings, of women itching to be heard and of delightful insanities.
Sylvia Plath Watches us Sleep…but we Don’t Mind
What you need to know before your trail
A Jewish woman has been having unnatural thoughts about the softness of another woman’s skin. A feminist arranges to meet her online troll. A woman worries, under her duvet, whether she should sit content in a marriage that has turned comfortable…that is, until she falls in love with a tree…
Travel Guide
A walk around the London locations
1.Wanstead Park – The ancient Repton Oak features as the unlikely love interest for the title character in Earnest Magnitude’s Infinite Sadness
2. Bus stop C on George Green in Wanstead is the scene for the interaction between the main and secondary character in the story Never Run From Wild Dogs – a teenage runaway and a melancholy mother’s paths collide while seeking shelter from a rainstorm
3. La Bakerie, Wanstead – In Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning, an unhappy wife travels to Cuba on her honeymoon, but finds herself missing home a little too much – and wonders if her regular order is growing cold on the counter of her favourite French cafe.
4. Whipps Cross Hospital, Acorn Children’s Unit – this is the setting for a poignant tale of one parent’s experience of hope, fear and clamouring cymbals in Elephants Don’t Live in the Jungle
5. A grubby flat above McDonald’s, Bethnal Green Road is the unlikely setting for reflection on familial inheritance: the truth, lies and legacies we inherit in Things my Mother Never Told me
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Sylvia Plath Watches us Sleep…but we Don’t Mind
Destination: London Author/guide: Victoria Richards Departure Time: various
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