The founders of the group are Martin Haywood and his wife, Helen who also own and operate The Grange Golf and Country Club. You could say she starts out well before she veers into that classic move of using someone else’s pain to talk about your own, usually more minor, experiences. I don’t want to say more for fear of giving up any plot points, which are best discovered by the reader. Though the Haywards are assumed to be well to do, the sum of money required for the full course of treatment is exorbitant. No matter how much I love them or how interesting they are, I do not ever enjoy reading books with THAT many characters.

As the reader races through the book, an accumulation effect occurs, with various strands of the narrative emerging. They intertwine, but I was too distracted for the brain power needed (perhaps December was the wrong month for this one)! I went there for the wild life – there are lemurs you can’t see anywhere else on earth and crazy-looking giraffe weevils – but it was the people that most enthralled me. Requiring a significant outlay of cash, the Haywoods need help from their fellow castmates, all of whom quickly rally behind them.Initially, it was fun to take notes and play armchair detective while reading the book but after a while, following the sequence of events and the characters became a tedious job. Unfortunately, her illness is a rare type of cancer, one that only extremely expensive medicine might be able to cure. I am an avid reader of non-fiction, but took this detour into fiction because the book sounded so promising.

Someone has been murdered and the powers that be need to be certain that the one who is in jail is the person who should be there. While at times somewhat overwhelming thanks to the large cast of characters and often seemingly superfluous clues, I stuck at it and I’m so very glad that I did. A group of caregivers and Thespians rally around a young child diagnosed with cancer by raising money for treatment that is costly and currently unavailable, except in America.Here, even if you do solve it, it feels like you’re making a professor or boss proud, rather than simply ruining the book for yourself. The reader has all the information available to the two legal assistants and can follow along, attempting to solve the demanding puzzle. Suspicions mount, accusations are made and the tension leads to a DEAD body, and an ARREST on the night of the play’s dress rehearsal . At the same time The Fairway Players continue to mount a production of All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Instead of just writing "bit late, be there in a sec" what we all would normally do, it was more "bit late because I ran into character X who told me a dirty secret about Y, which made me want to do Z before I could run the errand A.