Bamboo Grove - Softcover

Wood, Romy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956012515 ISBN 13: 9780956012517

Publisher: Alcemi, 2010

Synopsis

"Buzzes with insight and imagination... big themes of environmental responsibility and escape, mental illness and the policing of joy. A very fine debut."
Richard Gwyn

A black comedy about sex, financial boom and bust, corruption, cultural collision, fertility and altruism.

In a heady neo-Orient, a galaxy of unlikely and unusual characters find themselves intricately, messily bound together in the unique, rather dubious corporation known as Eastern Vision. They include a pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a teenager with precarious mental health and a quixotic pair of young and hungry businessmen. Trading in everything from faux-Eastern art to real estate, from sperm donation to gypsy magic, Eastern Vision has reached the top of the money mountain, and fallen over the other side. As the bust takes its toll, the team and others battle for control, of the company, of each other and of themselves, as they hurtle towards an end none of them could have predicted.

"An unusual, engaging and unpredictable novel packed with a cosmopolitan cast of colourful characters."
Lindsay Clarke, author of The Chymical Wedding

Romy Wood taught drama in comprehensive schools for ten years. She works as an associate Lecturer for the Open University. This novel is informed by her experiences of Romania and Thailand, where she has friends and family, as it is by Romy''s life as a woman with Bipolar Disorder. She lives with her husband and three children in Cardiff.

About this title

About the Author

Romy Wood taught in comprehensive schools for ten years, and as Head of Drama staged productions from Macbeth to Les Miserables. In 2006, she gained an MA from Cardiff University in the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing and was then awarded a writers bursary by Academi to continue her writing. She works as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and facilitates therapeutic writing groups. She enjoys travelling, especially to Romania and Thailand where she has family and friends. Romy Wood lives in Cardiff with her husband and three children, and she attributes her successes as much as her disasters to being bipolar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alcemi
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956012515
• ISBN 13: 9780956012517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200