Martin Chester's story about The Hearing Trumpet
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Author: Leonora Carrington
Synopsis92 year old Marian Leatherby discovers her family intends to send her to an old folks home when she is gifted a hearing trumpet. But this is not your typical old folks home. Made up of buildings shaped as cakes and mushrooms, ruled by Queen Bee and the Winking Abbess and the site of occult activities and murder.
My Story
I heard a piece on local (Canadian) radio about the book and was inspired to go out a buy it. To that point I had not read much for pleasure, only for my studies. But The Hearing Trumpet showed me that stories could come from places well outside reality without being fantasy or science fiction and that there is great value in looking at the world from odd angles.
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