Review: Like riding the Cresta bobsleigh run on a tin tray.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
Reading 'An Actor's Life' reminded me rather of going down the famous Cresta bobsleigh run on a tin tray, something that I haven't done since my dear late mother accidentally hired a Swiss nanny during the domestic staffing crisis that followed Daddy's unfortunate revelations in re spying for the Russians. It's awfully good fun on the way down, dashing around the curves and watching the course marshals fly, but you do rather know that it's not going to end well for the protagonists, and most splendidly so.My first five minutes after reading the story were spent in quiet nostalgia, thinking of brand new Ford Capris and ten pence bus fares. Thereafter I fell into a period of reflection, comparing my own disastrous choices in life with those of the characters in the story. Buy the story, watch the timeline unfold and hold on tightly for the wreck that you just know will greet you at the bottom of the mountain. It will make you squirm in sympathy, empathy and personal discomfortpathy. [NB 'discomfortpathy' is not an officially recognised reading condition, but it ought to be.]Delicious fun. Highly recommended.