Journal Entry 1 by aleonblue from Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

From the Fantastic Fiction website:

"Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and One Good Turn.

Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster. Her latest novel, One Good Turn, also features Jackson Brodie and is out now in paperback.

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself.

But over the centuries the forest has been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all.

But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, ArpSge and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest. " 

Journal Entry 2 by aleonblue at Croquet Club, York Street, Nundah in Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Released 1 yr ago (4/18/2012 UTC) at Croquet Club, York Street, Nundah in Brisbane, Queensland Australia

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Themed release - "Human Croquet" at croquet club