TOTALLY COPYING EMMA

Helllo again!
As the title and last post suggest I am totally copying Emma on this one but she loves me and won't care! ;) So I'm going to do a book review. Yes, I know what you're thinking, no one wants to read a book review made by Anna but I promise you I will make it interesting. Maybe ;) if not just read it for a laugh. Hahah. So the book I am going to write about is called 'Wish you were here' and its by Graham Swift. I'd never heard of him before but the blurb sounded really good and so I bought it! It was mighty expensive though, 13 quid! But it was at the airport and I thought, why not?! I have nothing else to read. My Mum's always up for buying me books anyway because its 'educational' or whatever plus the fact that I can lend it to people now that I've finished it! So anyway on to the book. To begin with, even like half way through it, I really, really hated it. I remember saying to James 'man the book I'm reading is so shit' but in the end I really did get in to it! I kind of forced myself to read it though because I didn't want to start it and not finish it. I wanted to fight on ;) haha, so the book is based around 2 characters. Well no, its based around many characters but the main two people are named Ellie & Jack. They live in the Isle of Wight and own a caravan park. Jack has a brother called Tom (same name as my brother ;)) and he is fighting in the war in Afghanistan. The main plot is the fact that Tom dies. But the book basically almost tells the story of Jacks life. Its written in third person which tbh I didn't really like, I understand books more when they're coming from one person's point of view, I think you can get into it more and you feel like you're my involved in the characters life. But even so to the end I did enjoy this book! I think I'm just a bit biased because the only proper books I've read and actually enjoyed our Dorothy Koomson ones which are all completely and utterly different to this one and are all in first person. This one, although quite confusing to begin with did turn out to be quite moving and a good little read for me ;) Jack and Ellie's families both come from Farmhouse backgrounds, they both grow up in farms next to each other, thats how they know each other! So Jacks parents, Vera & Micheal both end up dying. Vera of cancer I think, can't quite remember and Micheal, well he commits suicide. Sorry, this is total spoilers to this book, I won't give away anymore! So a lot of the story is told during the present, Jack going to Tom's funeral, his thoughts and feelings but then another part of it is told from in the past, Jack and Tom growing up and them living on a farm. Man, I'm not telling this plot very well am I?! All in all, it was a good book to read, there were many different plot lines to it and it did begin to get interesting by the end. I think I'm gunna read more books by this Grahham Swift chap! ;) Anywho, must be gone, I've gotta go meet James in town! Thank you for bothering to read this random little book review, blog more soon! x