The Manuscript: A story of revenge

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Cleverly plotted with interweaving loops and connections that will leave you speechless. No character is safe from Bloom’s authorial sword. Me: I have not misunderstood Lucy. There were things that I liked about your book and things I did not, simple as that. You did not like my opinion and that’s on you. I invested time in reading and reviewing your book respectfully and I articulated the elements that I did not like. You also know that I invested time in attending to your launch and promote your book, even after I had read it and formed my opinion about it. I truly hope you don’t treat other readers like [you] have treated me. This speaks way more about you as an author, than me as a nobody reviewer who posted an opinion on a book. Each encounter has its own flavour and drama. Like sliding doors, two scenarios sometimes play out piquing outcomes. What a great and intriguing book. Loved the raw and flawed characters and the journey to places not many of us have been.

Because I looked like I had grazed my face in very neat vanity-inspired patches, I decided to do all the things that make me unpresentable, all at the same time, before I charge off on my national book tour. This included a chemical soak which makes the dead skin peel off my feet. I glanced down while Ice Cream Man looked at the moving images on his mega TV, and I saw with complete horror that my feet were shedding their skin, right there in his living room, like flipping twin cicadas shedding their shells.The author blurb that has accompanied my latest book reads, “While some find Lucy’s memoir hard to believe, The Manuscript is her first work of fiction.” Ha! I wrote that myself. I’ve published three books in three genres – a childbirth guide for men, my memoir and now a novel. All three are based on truth. All three with varying ratios of fact to fiction. Accomplished author Edith Scott, recently divorced, wishes to shake-up her life. She starts meeting men through dating apps and also decides to switch her writing genre from historical drama to thriller. In 2016, under Bloom's leadership, and with full board approval, Sunrise Cambodia launched a fundraising campaign that portrayed a Cambodian child as an unkempt sex worker. The campaign was denounced by child protection organizations in Australia as being unethical and exploitative, dubbing it "poverty porn". Bloom defended the use of the images as well within the ACFID code of conduct [12]. [13] [14] [15] Publications [ edit ] Bloom worked for a short time as a jillaroo after graduating from high school before dropping out of university. Later, she worked at advertising agency Pilgrim International on cause-related accounts such as Amnesty International and World Vision before she established her own boutique advertising agency, Pure Graphics, which she led for 20 years. [3] In 2004 she trained as a doula and created a childbirth education program for men, Beer + Bubs. [4] Take a ride on the wild side with Edith Scott, a journey covering her escapades, conquests and her writing career. A character that will leave an impression. When fiction becomes fact and the story written is unravelling in real life, it makes a unique twist.

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It was almost impossible for me to move from the issues I had with the characterisation and focus on anything else. Although I was able to appreciate the doubtless good intentions behind the fun take on the adventures of a White forty-something divorcee woman, I was still not convinced by the superficiality of the characters, especially Edith’s. Bloom is an advocate for women and there is quite a feminist lean to the story but not all Edith’s male interests are cads. There are those that simply make wrong decisions and one that is totally chivalrous. The grit in a good novel comes from the truth telling of charming and horrid observations of real life, real human detail and actual happenings which give a plot the fertile garden from which the story sprouts. Meanwhile, the succession of deaths of several supporting characters who she perceives have wronged her occur outside Edith's consciousness and are curiously interlinked with each other. I was left wanting more explanation for what was going on, what the underlying meaning was, but none was ever forthcoming.