Dear Readers – introducing my extraordinary novelist daughter, Tanvir Naomi Bush, who is crowdfunding through Unbound for her next novel – please read her post for a flavour of the story. If you like you can help through Unbound.
CULL has hit 84% of total and is on a roll!
84%! Yikes!
For those of you unsure about what this is all about, what the hell kind of novel it is and why on earth you should pledge and become part of this wonderful project, please allow me to shed some light!
CULL is my second novel, a literary fiction set in ‘another England’ where austerity has set the country’s teeth on edge. Hate crime is on the rise and the government has just passed The Protect and Care Bill as a cost- cutting method demanding the elderly and vulnerable, no longer able to afford care, are housed in huge residential centres for their ‘own good’.
Alex, a hard-bitten journalist, has fallen on hard times and is struggling to find enough work to pay her bills and keep her off the street. She is visually impaired and lives with her wonderful and compassionate canine companion, her guide dog Chris . . .
Whilst looking for potential stories, Alex and Chris stumble upon two things; one, the possibility that the newly opened Grassybanks Residential Home may be a front for state sponsored euthanasia of the disabled and vulnerable. Two, that their new found friends at the Ladies Defective Agency (LDA) may be undercover activists.
However, Alex and Chris’s snooping puts them directly in the line of danger. Who can they trust and what can they do to make things right?
Continue reading at: And still we rise…! 84%! – Tanvir Naomi Bush
5 Comments on “And still we rise…! 84%! – Tanvir Naomi Bush”
Ah man I can’t wait to read this! So deserves to get to 100% soon! A worthy subversive piece of positive revolutionary creative activism from a talented young lady!
I do like the sound of this just my sort of thing, happy to support new talent.
I am glad you liked this post Anne, and I’m sorry I’ve taken so long to reply.Cull is amn important book but nowadays publishing is more and more difficult. Your support is greatly appreciated. The funding is going up fast but there is still some more needed. Please, if you can – do shre this link again and thank you very much for your help.
Hi Ruth
You are very welcome, as soon as I saw the description of the book I wanted to read it, so happy to help get it published. Will certainly share the link.
Hi Ruth
You are very welcome, as soon as I saw the description of the book I wanted to read it, so happy to help get it published.