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Thinking Allowed
by Anne Murphy
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1st August, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-906018-09-2
Price: €15
Thinking Allowed is a delightful mix of wry humour, self-mocking honesty and heart-warming optimism. This collection moves from stark reality, rewinds to memories of adolescence and fast forwards to dreams, fantasies and true life messages sent and received as randomly as a message in a bottle. Photography and illustrations heighten the immediacy of an author whose humour and gentle wit echo the mischeivousness of Pam Ayres and whose perspective is truly thought provoking. Her words have the authenticity of someone who is wide awake, audacious and busy thinking aloud on her feet!
About the author
Anne Murphy was born in Co. Down. She has four children and one grandson. She lives and works in Kilkenny. She is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast and The University of Aberdeen. She recently completed a Certificate in Print Journalism, a Kilkenny VEC and Kilkenny People initiative. She is currently working on her collection of short stories.
Praise for Thinking Allowed
“The Bridget Jones of Poetry…a must for all negotiating the perils of the social scene!” – Natasha Reid, Journalist.
Excerpt
Strange things happen on the telephone
Revelations rocking in my ear
Silhouettes of softly silken sheen
Rushing in a non-stop mental stream.
From: Down the Line
