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Not All There Kindle Edition

by Jane Barron de Burgh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
Claude’s mother is dead. Except she won’t stay that way. She’s back with her family and none of them know what to do about it.

Is there a name for someone who is only sort of dead? And why does Claude feel like he’s the only one celebrating her return?

‘Not All There’ is a character study of grief and the people who experience it, told through the eyes of a bewildered child who struggles to make sense of the death of his mother, Mary and her re-emergence as a ghost.

Familial relationships are tested as Claude, Patience and their father try to answer the question - ‘What do we do about Mary?’


Previously released under the same title, this is an updated and extended edition.
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  1. Print length
    67 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    March 22, 2024
  4. Reading age
    15 - 18 years
  5. File size
    952 KB
  6. Page Flip
    Enabled
  7. Word Wise
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CVVBTRND
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Castle Priory Press; 2nd edition (March 22, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 22, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 952 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 67 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

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Jane Barron de Burgh

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Jane Barron de Burgh is an Essex based author and poet. They graduated from the Open University with a Masters in English in 2022. Their work takes on difficult themes not just on its pages but in the shape of the work, reflecting how society is not structured to suit those who are marginalised.

Not All There, is their first literary novella and deals with themes of childhood grief, and important and deeply feeling book that it takes on the form of a guide to allow anyone who has known loss of any kind to escape into a fictional world and explore grief vicariously.

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  • The Larl Bookworm
    4.0 out of 5 stars Short exploration!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2024
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    This is a short, 67 page Novella

    This emotional book, explores several themes with the biggest being d3ath.

    We explore this theme through the eyes of a child, Claude, after the death of his mother.

    The writing style was very different and not one I've come across often. It is essentially a narrator style and I felt like I was watching a movie at various points given the narration, which was different.

    My heart broke for Claude, being so young and trying to navigate death. He's happy that his mother has returned after death but the rest of the family isn't so much. Watching him trying to understand what was happening was both sad and also interesting.

    D3ath is usually seen from an adult's perspective in books and not a child's.

    It was a very quick read and not something I would usually pick up so it was a nice change!
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  • Elizabeth Barron de Burgh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 8, 2024
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    Very emotional but fascinating read
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  • Kindle Customer Paula
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not all there
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2024
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    This story of a family grieving the premature loss of the wife and mother is well told, for the most part. The focus on the viewpoint of Claude, the son, was well-maintained, especially as it was shown, rather than told, and from a third-person perspective.

    The author stresses that it's a novella—although it's unnecessary to refer to it as a 'literary novella', as it's literary by the fact of being a novella—and it's not badly crafted as such. There's irony—intentional or otherwise—in the concrete symbol, the focal point around which the situation revolves, being an intangible and nebulous entity—something not all there, in fact.

    For all that, though, at no time did it excite or engage me—not even when the children were going through their mother's personal effects, to either retain or discard, which I've done myself in the last month. Maybe it’s because the theme is one that's been well-worked already, on both page and screen, so the 'turning point' when it came was not really surprising. Stories based on this idea can only proceed in a restricted number of directions, and as this isn’t a long piece of work it wasn't difficult to work out which way it was going. 

    As to the questions posed in the backmatter, for the readers—who are the latter, exactly? This isn't standard book club fare, and for university students—who are supposed to be learning to work things out for themselves—the questions are far too focussed on the themes the author wants them to consider. ‘A’ level students then, or the AP examinations in America, or whatever the equivalent elsewhere.

    Also at the end of the book is the request for a review, which is a standard practice for authors—I’ve done it myself—but specifying the exact number of stars we want is a no-no. That's the prerogative of the reader to decide.

    In summary though, a competent new rendition of a well-worked trope.
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