Book Review - Nothing To Write Home About by Michelle Abadie and Susan Beale

I've got a new review up at The American Chronicle.

It's for a fantastic book called Nothing To Write Home About. It was compiled by Michelle Abadie and Susan Beale.

You can read the article here:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=41945

Here's an excerpt of the review:


Postcards manage to capture the imagination with a picture and then retain something of the moment they were bought; perhaps a holiday or a business trip or a wedding. The postcard becomes marked with secrets when it is bought and when it is written upon.

In reality, postcards are markers of time. They are an instant in our past and present, a second of time or the few minutes one has spent scribbling away on the back. Postcards are magic; they let us see into the lives of others, just for a second, and see things we may not have seen.

In Nothing to Write Home About, Michelle Abadie and Susan Beale have compiled a collection of John Hinde postcards. From the sixties to the eighties, John Hinde postcards flourished in popularity, their dream like images transporting you to somewhere different, somewhere magical.


Nothing To Write Home About is available from the good people at The Friday Project and on Amazon. You can find it here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Write-About-Michelle-Abadie/dp/1905548362/sr=1-1/qid=1171471283/ref=sr_1_1/026-8123779-1311656?ie=UTF8&s=books