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Where
is the Edge of the World? It's a back alley in Chinatown,
or the dark suburban street where muggers jump you, it's
a mountain camp in the dusk for an estranged father and
son. It's the endless dunes where you lose your way, it's
a seat in a pram at the top of a hill. It's the place where
an erotic encounter can lead you. It's the unacknowledged
scientific view, or the intuitive insight which conventional
medicine ignores. It's the powerlessness resulting from
lost language and suppressed history, it's the moment with
the rough kids in the woods when you understand you're no
better than them. It's the place where you can wrest back
power - rebel against a violent father, expose a conman,
discover you have magic powers.
It's
between these covers. You
can go there by clicking here
'Quite
swept me off my feet ... Nothing would have induced me to
interrupt
Balancing on the Edge of the World by Elizabeth Baines until
I'd read them all' -Dovegreyreader. Read a review by Dovegreyreader
here.
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COMMENTS AND REVIEWS
AUDIO CLIPS OF ELIZABETH READING EXTRACTS:
From
'The Shooting Script'
From
'Star Things'
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ARTICLES BY ELIZABETH AND INTERVIEWS WITH HER ABOUT THE
BOOK:
Contribution
to A series on creating
a text on John Baker's blog, focusing on the story,
'Compass and Torch'.
The
Short Review interview
The
Book Addict's Guide interview
Dovegreyreader
Asks
Film:
Salt Podcast: Elizabeth
talks about her short stories
A
virtual book tour.
Elizabeth visited blogs to answer questions about Balancing
on the Edge of the World, her writing process and her writing
life. Find out all about it here.
(Stop
4 on the tour took place on a blog which has now been deleted
and replaced, but the questions posed and Elizabeth's answers
can be read here.) |
