Tinkerbelle this Fairy is not …it is an angry, bitter and viscous looking creature from nightmare. He wakes up during the night and first lays eyes on the Tooth Fairy “oddly dressed and smelling of horse’s sweat and chamomile”. …Sam puts the tooth under his pillow at bedtime…as you do Sam, Clive and Terry are ordinary (ish) boys growing up in the 1960s until one day when Clive punches Sam in the mouth and knocks out a tooth. ‘You come away from the book feeling your perception of the world has been just been knock slightly askew away from what you previously thought to be normal’ Graham refuses to come down on one side or the other of the ideas he presents in his novel, it is all about ambiguity and uncertainty He likes to instill in the reader a feeling of lingering uneasiness ….
What ever he is his stories are strange, magical and original and he fast becoming one of my favourite authors. Graham Joyce surely is one of the most underrated authors.is this possibly because he is so hard to market? Is he horror? Is he fantasy? Or possibly `social surrealism'.?
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