Adam Spark does not have a lot going for him. Bullied, working at a fast food restaurant and
just a little on the slow side. That is until he has a bit of an accident trying to save a child
being crushed on an American football field in Scotland . When he wakes from being knocked unconscious he
starts to see lights over peoples heads.
Different colours expressing the
different moods they are in. Stranger still the animals and machines start to talk to him and
he can control time. Has Scotland got its first Superhero?
The author, Alan Bissett is a creative writing tutor at the University of Glasgow . This certainly shows through the
book as it is all written phonetically but in Scottish. This as an English
man makes for some hard reading over the first few
pages. But soon it starts to get easier
and you rattle through the pages.
I was not completely bowled over by the book but the pages turned and it was a simple story.
In places you
feel quite sorry for our Sparky and in other you feel you want to reach in and
shake him by the shoulders. I''d sum this book up as an easy read for a weekend away.
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