From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle
Kate de Goldi
From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle
Kate de Goldi
Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day, he just didn’t know when that day would arrive. He was already an actual director - he’d made four fifteen-minute films - but so far only his schoolmates and the residents of the High Street had viewed them. Global fame was a little way off. It would come, though. Barney was certain about that …
So begins the manuscript written from the hospital bed of an unnamed man.
He has written it over many months as he recovers from serious injuries sustained in a city-wide catastrophe.
He has written so he can remember the street where he lived, home to a cavalcade of interesting people, singular shops, and curious stories.
He has written so he can remember the summer before he was injured, the last days of a vanished world.
Above all, he has written so he can remember the inimitable Barney Kettle, filmmaker, part-time dictator, questing brain, theatrical friend; a boy who loved to invent stories but found a real one under his nose; a boy who explored his neighbourhood with camera in hand and stumbled on a mystery that changed everything …
From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle is a beautiful story: big-hearted, richly entertaining, powerful.
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