25th January Will it be magic?

 

Harry Potter levels of hysteria are expected to be generated outside most major book retailers in the coming week as nerds, geeks and dweebs queue on mass to be amongst the first to get their hands on the must read book of 2022 'Fifty Shades of (Sue) Gray'.

Speaking exclusively to Grace Under Pressure, Miranda Bowers revealed how her 19 yr old son, Jarvis, just hasn't been able to sleep due to the excitement of the forthcoming release.

"Oh he's been like this ever since he was young. We hoped and prayed that he might grow out of it but it just seems to get worse the older he gets. He just devours government reports one after another. He just loved the Levinson report, read the Grenfell Tower inquiry in a weekend, couldn't be dragged away from the Iraq war investigation and thought the Hillsborough disaster review really hit the back of the net. He's got them all, in both hard back and paper back versions, but this latest one has really got him excited." 

" And he doesnt even bother to buy the editions with false covers so that no one else knows what he is reading. He just siss there and braves it out on the no 36 into town. I think his favourite up to now was The Shipman Report which is almost falling apart he has read it so often. I think it's probably led to his decision to study medicine at university. Or at least I hope thats what Harold Shipman has inspired to do."

 







 

 


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