Library Corner

I read this book ‘in-between’ other books since it is a short book and one which I finished in a couple of days.  I picked it up with some reservations, having been told that it was about a young man who reconnects with his dead mother. Having lost my own mother, it felt a little ‘too close to home’.  The story is told though Chick who is given ‘one more day’ with his mother who died some years previous.  It is written in very simple language and is therefore extremely easy to follow.  The way in which Chick gets his ‘one more day’ is not as complex as one might first think and the book openly draws the reader to think about what it would be like to be given that ‘one more day’.  The regrets of words said, or perhaps more importantly, the things that were never said all come together in this moving tale.  After reading it, it didn’t leave me feeling as sad as I had expected.  If anything, it gave me a sense of peace that I don’t have many regrets and whilst we all yearn for that ‘one more day’ just to be held close, to smell that warm smell that is a mother, it reminded me that those we lose are never very far away.  A good short read.