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Jay Mandal

Jay Mandal 2008 on Precipice and The Dandelion clock

Interviewee(s)
Jay Mandal

Introduction

Jay Mandal came to us through reading an interview from another author on our website. The two books we reviewed are Pecipice and The Dandelion Clock which impressed us immensly. In this interview Jay tells a little about himself and his influences in life.


Interview

BFK: Have you always liked writing?

JM: Yes. I can remember writing when I was a child. Then, when I was in my teens, I wrote 300 pages of a science fiction story. In the eighties, I wrote two novels, but it was only in 1992 that I started on the short stories which eventually became the collections Slubberdegullion, A Different Kind of Love, and The Loss of Innocence.

BFK: You write very much about the emotional side of a relationship?

JM: I suppose it comes naturally to me, and it's what I like writing.

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The Dandelion Clock

Author
Jay Mandal
Genre
Review

Jay Mandal, with his book The Dandelion Clock has told the wonderful story of David and Rob. They gel so well at the station cafe that, as the synopsis says, was there an alternative reason for David to ask Rob to come and stay with him as he had plenty of spare room in his house?

I don't believe there was at the start, it was just a kindness being extended to a younger person because he did not want him sleeping rough on the station, being so young and looking so vulnerable.

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Precipice

Author
Jay Mandal
Genre
Review

A great book by Jay Mandal beautifully written on a very sensitive subject.

Jay talks on the subject of a gay relationship, and the feelings that the two characters go through when Matt is diagnosed with cancer. People accept that Matt and Jamie have been together for some seven years including both their parents and also their friends.

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