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Bloodmining
by
Laura Wilkinson (Goodreads Author)
Megan Evens appears to have it all: brains, beauty, a successful career as a foreign correspondent. But deep down she is lonely and rootless. Pregnant, craving love but unable to trust after the destructive affair with her baby's father she returns to the security of her birthplace in Wales.When Megan's son is later diagnosed with a terminal condition, a degenerative, here...more
Paperback, 372 pages
Published
August 19th 2011
by Bridge House
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With the emotional resonance of a Maggie O’ Farrell and hints of Ishiguro’s Never let me go, Bloodmining is a vivid and believable rendering of a familiar but crucially altered near future. A compelling debut novel from Laura Wilkinson that I read in one sitting, this is well worth the read.
Over the course of the novel we develop great sympathy and affinity with the characters: Megan who must chart her past to save her child’s future, Elizabeth, whose story is both shocking and profoundly moving...more
Over the course of the novel we develop great sympathy and affinity with the characters: Megan who must chart her past to save her child’s future, Elizabeth, whose story is both shocking and profoundly moving...more
At times haunting, at times bleak and continuously stimulating, Blood Mining is a consummate first novel. Laura Wilkinson's prose is both evocative and engaging. The narrative moves freely through different time zones (2015-20 and 2048-53.) Although I would have preferred more of something akin to `newspeak' in the more futuristic sections (the `mulmed' works nicely), the locations and images of life are well imagined and are alien enough to contemporary society to carry the intriguing plot succ...more
This is an accomplished and thought-provoking debut. Set in a near and far future, which are both unfamiliar and yet not so different as to be unrecognisable, this novel asks important questions about the ethics of technological assistance in conception and the creation of children. It presents ways of raising children in alternatives to the traditional nuclear family and imagines a return to self sufficiency in a post-climate-change context. If anything, there could be more of this, perhaps; bu...more
It's a long time since I've read a book that I've enjoyed as much as BloodMining.
It is an excellent idea which was turned into an excellent, gripping book. One of those books that has you up too late at night reading and thinking about it during the day while you are working, feeling the need to get back to it.
And now that I've finished it, I am feeling a little bereft, and wondering what happened to the characters as they continue on their life's journey.
This is storytelling at its best, writte...more
It is an excellent idea which was turned into an excellent, gripping book. One of those books that has you up too late at night reading and thinking about it during the day while you are working, feeling the need to get back to it.
And now that I've finished it, I am feeling a little bereft, and wondering what happened to the characters as they continue on their life's journey.
This is storytelling at its best, writte...more
Despite dystopian books being massively on trend at the moment, I don't usually particularly enjoy these books that are set in the future and are far too unrealistic for me to be able to relate to. However, Wilkinson doesn't take this too far. BloodMining is set in the not-too-distant future and it's scarily believable.
Part One of the book is set between 2048 and 2052. Part Two then skips back to 2015 to 2020 where we learn the background story to the present characters. Finally Part Three comes...more
Part One of the book is set between 2048 and 2052. Part Two then skips back to 2015 to 2020 where we learn the background story to the present characters. Finally Part Three comes...more
Bloodmining is a very well-crafted debut novel. I was hooked from the start and the characters pull you in, getting under your skin.
I particularly liked the futuristic setting of this novel with the slight differences from contemporary life and the survivor aftermath feel following an international disaster. The themes of identity, loss and motherhood are explored in an emotionally engaging way, whilst never becoming mawkish.
The novel is structured using three time periods. Jumping back in time...more
Laura Wilkinson's debut novel BloodMining is a book I have read slowly but surely, and savoured. They say the key to great writing is to make every word count. Wilkinson certainly makes every single word count, and is clearly an intelligent and highly skilled writer.
This book draws you in, and although there are quite a few characters you get to know them all in just the right amount of detail. It amazed me when the book moved into the past, as I usually find time changes in books hard to get in...more
This book draws you in, and although there are quite a few characters you get to know them all in just the right amount of detail. It amazed me when the book moved into the past, as I usually find time changes in books hard to get in...more
Firstly, I must say thank you to Laura Wilkinson for sending me her book for review. This is Laura’s debut novel and it is based mainly in North Wales. It has been set in the not-too-distant future, mostly mid 21st century and is divided into three parts.
Megan Evens appears to have it all - brains, beauty and a successful career as a foreign correspondent. But is she really happy? Deep down she is lonely and rootless. After a destructive affair Megan is left on her own. She is pregnant and cravi...more
Megan Evens appears to have it all - brains, beauty and a successful career as a foreign correspondent. But is she really happy? Deep down she is lonely and rootless. After a destructive affair Megan is left on her own. She is pregnant and cravi...more
BloodMining began as flash fiction, sparked by a news item about a British woman who became a new mother at the age of 62. The action takes place within two time settings – the immediate, and more distant future.
Wikinson’s future is not, at first glance, so different from the present. Her imagined world is credible because while subtly different, it is rooted in current anxieties.
Gutsy and fiercely independent, Megan Evens - a single mother, fighting to save her son's life after he is diagnosed...more
Wikinson’s future is not, at first glance, so different from the present. Her imagined world is credible because while subtly different, it is rooted in current anxieties.
Gutsy and fiercely independent, Megan Evens - a single mother, fighting to save her son's life after he is diagnosed...more
Almost as good as its reviews.
Very well crafted and long stretches where it was very hard to put down.
In my tiny mind, marred by some contrived sequences and an ending not as strong as the preceding 360 pages.
But I'd recommend it to grandmothers and Hell's Angels alike.
Very well crafted and long stretches where it was very hard to put down.
In my tiny mind, marred by some contrived sequences and an ending not as strong as the preceding 360 pages.
But I'd recommend it to grandmothers and Hell's Angels alike.
January book for the Broadway Book Club.
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Good read.
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I grew up in Wales and now live in a never-to-be-chic area of Brighton. Recently, I’ve worked as a freelance writer, an editor, and a copywriter. In between raising my two young boys and working I’m completing my second novel. I have published short stories in magazines, an anthology, and digital media like Ether Books. My debut novel, BloodMining, is published by Bridge House 13 October 2011. Rea...more
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