This week on Big Words and Made Up Stories, I’m reviewing an excellent new novel by Amanda Bedzrah. “Leah: Unnoticed, Unwanted, Unloved” is the story of two sisters, the daughters of Laban, a somewhat unprincipled chap with an eye to the main chance. The story appears in the book of Genesis, and for the purposes of this review, I’m using the Message translation.
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Two by Two: A Review of “Not Knowing but Still Going” by Jocelyn-Anne Harvey
The author, Jocelyn-Anne Harvey (an Instant Apostle stablemate) first got an inkling that she might like to write about Noah and his family when a cargo ship capsized out to sea and more than 2,000 tons of wood were washed up on Worthing beach, near her home. I was captivated from the off when I read her description of the event.
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