Review: An insightful view of places and people
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
Shy Feet is a collection of short stories centred on the theme of travel and, underlying this, the connected theme of going home. It’s a book about places and people. The author is a keen observer and creates the places in vivid detail, giving several stories an atmospheric quality. It’s also about people: the relationships between characters and individual’s developing self-awareness which reveal what makes us human. There is such a variety of material that it’s difficult to throw it all into one basket. The stories are quirky, poignant, imaginative and thought provoking. My favourite stories are The Lost Children of Gatwick Airport for its creativity and Max’s Holiday for its poignancy.