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Review of Rosemary Mairs Miss Winn #shortstory #collection
My Review
Miss Winn is the latest collection of short stories by Rosemary Mairs.
I really enjoyed Rosemary Mairs’s previous short story collection, A Recycled Marriage, so was keen to read this too. Miss Winn is a solid collection of excellent short stories about a range of characters and topics such as: con men, murderers, traffic wardens, lonely old women, carers, an adopted boy finding his real mother, and tales of luck running out, as in the ‘Pinter Genes.’ You definitely don’t want to come across the old hag in ‘Waiting.’ Some of my favourites: Rev Ricky, The Portrait, Memory Tap, Flick The Slick, (con man,) Bobby Dazzler (adopted boy finding his mum,) No one will know, (mushroom allergy! This I found interesting as my daughter has this allergy! And I know how dangerous this can be!)
Miss Winn (about a conniving fraudstar and lonely old women, great twist!)
Just One – peanut allergy. Perfect Day – wedding – jealousy. Bad boy Blade, Waiting – wicked hag.
Pinter Genes – luck running out.
Buster – gold diggers!
In her sleep, about a traffic warden!
My favourite of all was ‘Buster,’ and Miss Winn as they both include really great twists in their tales!
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Welcome to my blog: M J Mallon - Kyrosmagica Publishing. A blog about magic, books, writing, laughter, and much more! I'm a YA fantasy author, poet and reviewer. My first YA fantasy novel The Curse of Time - Book 1 - Bloodstone is set in Cambridge and Book 2 - Golden Healer is now out too. As well as this, I have contributed to several anthologies, created my own with some amazing international writers, bloggers and creatives during the pandemic: This Is Lockdown and written two poetry collections: Lockdown Innit Poems About Absurdity & Mr. Sagittarius Poetry and Prose. I write book reviews on my blog and on Goodreads, book bub and on my bookstagram. I have a penchant for travel and have relatives in far flung places, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore, (my birthplace.) I grew up in in Bonnie Scotland, in Edinburgh, and now live in Cambridge. I love sunny, hot places, particularly Rome, Venice, Portugal, Barcelona, and I forgot to mention the sun drenched beaches of the Caribbean, how could I? I am lucky to have been blessed with two lovely daughters and a husband who I fondly refer to in this blog as my black sheep. Family joke! With my passion for travel, culture, beautiful beaches, good food, books, theatre, writing, and humour, I hope to keep you entertained. I'm loving every minute of this creative journey, please join me.
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7 thoughts on “Review of Rosemary Mairs Miss Winn #shortstory #collection”
Hi Robbie, been very busy. Lots of personal stuff going on in my life. And had bad problems with sciatica so my online time is cut substantially. I can’t sit for too long without lots of problems. I have been writing more poetry of late. I’d really recommend Rosemary Mair’s writing she is an excellent short story author.
M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
What a great review, Marje – congrats to Rosemary
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Thank you Toni. 🙂
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Hi Marje, this is certainly short and sharp. How are you? I don’t see you around much lately.
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Hi Robbie, been very busy. Lots of personal stuff going on in my life. And had bad problems with sciatica so my online time is cut substantially. I can’t sit for too long without lots of problems. I have been writing more poetry of late. I’d really recommend Rosemary Mair’s writing she is an excellent short story author.
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Thank you, Marje. I’m sorry about the siatica, I hope it improves soon. I’m also writing mainly poetry currently.
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Think I am a bit run down! Now have some other lurgy! Glad to hear you are also writing mainly poetry. 😊
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Get better soon 🤗🩵
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