Today it's my turn on the BlogTour We Are Animals by Tim Ewins.
Tim Ewins has enjoyed an eight-year stand-up career alongside his accidental career in finance.
He has previously written for DNA Mumbai, had two short stories highly commended and published in Michael Terence Short Story Anthologies, and enjoyed a very brief acting stint (he’s in the film Bronson, somewhere in the background).
He lives with his wife, son and dog in Bristol. We Are Animals is his first novel.
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About the book
A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass.
Jan is also looking out to sea. He’s in Goa, dreaming of the passport-thief who stole his heart (and, indeed, his passport) forty-six years ago. Back then, fate kept bringing them together, but lately it seems to have given up.
Jan has not. In his long search he has accidentally held a whole town at imaginary gunpoint in Soviet Russia, stalked the proprietors of an international illegal lamp-trafficking scam and done his very best to avoid any kind of work involving the packing of fish. Now he thinks if he just waits, if he just does nothing at all, maybe fate will find it easier to reunite them.
His story spans fifty-four years, ten countries, two imperfect criminals (and one rather perfect one), twenty-two different animals and an annoying teenager who just…
Will…Not…Leave.
But maybe an annoying teenager is exactly what Jan needs to help him find the missing thief?
Featuring a menagerie of creatures, each with its own story to tell, We Are Animals is a quirky, heart-warming tale of lost love, unlikely friendships and the certainty of fate (or lack thereof).
For the first time in her life the cow noticed the sun setting, and it was glorious.
I'm not sure I will ever be able to look at a 'vest' again without thinking about the life philosophy of vests in relation to non-vests and the world in general. It's the kind of thing you are aware of at a subliminal level. You take it in and think nothing more about it - like so many other things.
It's via the vest that Jan and Shakey make the first connection that leads to a long conversation. Jan reminisces about his lost love. The way his life has intersected with hers at different moments. It not always being the right place or the right time.
What is more important in the grand scheme of things is the way Jan perceives his own impact on the people around him and the world. Like many of us, who walk around in invisible bubbles of our own creation, he believes he walks and has always walked the world without leaving an imprint.
The story shows how his interactions with certain people have indeed left an impression, which is true of everyone. Nobody leaves no imprint at all - everyone influences and has an impact on someone else.Those small moments that mean nothing to many and something to the living beings going through it.
It's not easy to squeeze this into a specific genre, perhaps because it is on the rim of more than one. It's speculative, spiritual and very much a contemporary read.
This is very much a story that asks the reader to read between the lines, to make conscious and subconscious connections. Ewins uses the animals to draw parallels, and in a way that in itself is an example of the microcosms we tend to ignore, because of our self-titled and established superiority.
Buy We Are Animals at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Publisher: Lightning Books; pub date 2 Mar. 2020. Buy at Amazon com. Buy at Eye-books.com.
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