The Girl on the Swing
By Ali Cooper
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About this ebook
This book has enjoyed considerable success and sales during 2010/11. It is still available for download and POD print although it is not currently being actively advertised or promoted.
Ali Cooper
I'm a singer/songwriter/guitarist and I teach guitar. I currently live in rural Devon - came here for the solar eclipse and stayed! I have degrees in psychology and archaeology (I'm already published in archaeology non-fiction) and these subjects tend to crop up in my writing. The Girl on the Swing is my first novel to make it into print. It's published by Standing Stone Press in association with Year Zero Writers collective. It's also available in print with Amazon, B & N, Waterstones etc in US and UK.
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Reviews for The Girl on the Swing
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I downloaded the sample of this book after seeing Ali on the forums, where several of the others had praised it greatly. I dithered a bit because it really didn't sound like my sort of thing, but downloaded the sample out of curiosity and by two paragraphs in had bought the book.The first thing I noticed about "Girl on a Swing" is the intricate, almost poetic use of words (this was what sold me on it). If you want a taste of the writing style, definitely have a look at the sample but bear in mind that while the sample covers the beginning which is quite still and slow, the action gets more intense and exciting later in the book.The story is told in the first person, mostly in the present; the heroine, Julia, lives a very isolated life, emotionally speaking, and this is communicated with the barest minimum of implications but permeates everything else. In some ways her life seems much less real than her remembered lives - at the beginning of the book I had a good idea of what was going to happen, and then it baffled my expectations at every turn, which is always gratifying!It is very atmospheric; very gripping; and very unusual. The only reason for which I gave it four stars rather than five is that when the action comes to its climax, I would have liked to have heard a little more from Frank about what / how much he remembered, just to give the ending a little more symmetry and definition. (That said, you don't notice at the time because you're so into it; only when savouring the aftertaste of the book, so to speak.)It's such an unusual book, with such a fresh use of words; it's very powerful. Julia isn't cheerful, and yet she's leavened with enough cheerfulness from other characters that you're certainly not left in a cloud of depression. The development of Julia from her grief and isolation in the beginning of the book to the better, happier, more fulfilled self as she finds relief from various sadnesses at the end works quite naturally and is ultimately rather uplifting.Should you try it yourself? Absolutely yes. And bear in mind, if it's not your sort of thing - it's not my sort of thing either! But excellent things are, and this is excellent.JAC.