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Compelling read
These are my notes for whether or not this would make a decent film adaptation:

When a newspaper story on local missing persons dredges up the name of the horrible Terry Skinner, BILLIE MORGAN has to deal with the burden of knowledge of her part in his murder, while continuing to be the concerned family friend to his widow, JASMINE, and son NATHAN.While Billie fears that her crime will be found out, the consequences of her actions haunt her in an entirely different way, playing out in the wrecked lives of Jasmine and Nathan who she has come to love dearly.

Boiled down to it's bare essentials, "Billie Morgan" is a story about consequences - not the accepted consequences that society tries to impose, like Jail, but the true, human fall-out of our actions.There is never more than a suggestion that Billie might end up in jail for her crime, and while Billie has a certain amount of fear at the chance she will, we see her keep her secret for the welfare of those around her, even those who have rejected her, more than for herself.The real issue is actually hit upon by the scandal seeking newspaper the Clarion, when they write about the `Disappeared' - those who Society, and therefore the authorities, don't care about because they don't fit a certain type - middle class, blonde, white..."Billie Morgan" is about the underclass who operate outside the System, and for whom the justice imposed by the System isn't justice at all.

Billie herself is a great female protagonist - perhaps not the greatest in a long while, as the Kirkus review said, but definitely a compelling and complex heroine.Perhaps her greatest asset is her honesty with herself, thus becoming more human, more relatable, and allowing the reader to admit their own dark secrets to themselves - that maybe, just maybe, they would have done the same thing in Billie's situation and unwittingly murdered a man.

As much as Billie is a character who jumps off the page and brings the story alive, the dialogue is so specific and well written; it does a lot to give flavor and character to the story in its own right.Joolz Denby writes the dialect of the lower-class North-Eastern Brit with ease - and while such efforts - for example the Scottish brogue of Irvine Welsh - can often be confusing to the reader, there didn't seem to be any such complications here.For a movie adaptation, maintaining the dialect would be as essential to the characters and place as a Southern U.S. accent would be to a film set in rural Mississippi.

The film version would probably have to start somewhere about the middle of the book, and work the two time periods together, using the frame of the newspaper's research to bring out the back story.

The film version of this book would have a lot of the important ingredients necessary for a successful film - murder intrigue (although we know who did it, the why and the how of it is withheld until the end), sex, drugs, danger, family skeletons - and social commentary.There will be difficulties in translating much of the novel's internal world in to a cinematic medium, but not so much as to be insurmountable.The real downside may be that a film set among the urban poor in the U.K. may be a world that does not have a large appeal to American audiences without glamorizing certain aspects of that world, and thus compromising some of the thematic elements of the book. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Frederick Delius, Timothy West, Allan Holdsworth, Peter Firth, Bernard Hepton, Joolz Denby, Douglas Mawson, David Hockney, Gareth Gates, Edward Appleton, Ken Armstrong, Adrian Moorhouse, Fabian Delph, William Henry Sykes, Len Shackleton, Richard Whiteley, John Boynton Priestley, Henry Seebohm, Tasmin Archer, John Sharp, Justin Sullivan, Steph Swainston, Clayton Donaldson, Godfrey Lienhardt, John Orwin, Kimberley Walsh. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (né le 29 janvier 1862 à Bradford, Angleterre - mort le 10 juin 1934 à Grez-sur-Loing, France) était un compositeur post-romantique britannique d'origine allemande. Enfant, il apprend le violon et le piano, mais son père, Julius Delius un industriel allemand qui dirige une manufacture lainière, ne le destine pas à une carrière de musicien. Il découvre à treize ans la musique de Wagner en assistant à un concert. Sur sa requête son père l'envoie en Floride à Solano Grove sur les rives de la rivière St Johns, pour gérer une plantation d'orangers, tout en étudiant la composition. C'est à la suite de ce séjour qu'il composera sa première œuvre d'orchestre, Florida suite. Revenant en Europe, il étudie au conservatoire de Leipzig auprès de Reinecke, c'est dans cette ville qu'il rencontre Edvard Grieg qui influencera profondément sa musique. En 1888, grâce à l'intervention de Grieg auprès de son père, il s'installe à Paris et vivra jusqu'à la fin de ses jours en France. À partir de 1924, il fut atteint par la syphilis qui le paralysa et le rendit aveugle. Ne pouvant plus écrire sa musique, Eric Fenby, son secrétaire, rédigea sous sa dictée ses dernières compositions. Il mourut en 1934 à Grez-sur-Loing en Seine-et-Marne. Adm...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Contains six short stories by West Yorkshire writers based in or around the city of Leeds, featuring leading poets Joolz Denby and Simon Armitage and Sophie Hannah, plus novelist Andrew Semple and other writers. ... Read more