I do enjoy Gayles tales...go me for the rhyme!
He really manages to to offer up some amazingly vivid and multi dimensional characters that we really get to connect with.
All The Lonely People is, as always with Mr Gayles stories, about the very humanness of people, it is a book about...
*life*love*loss*friendship*family
and that sense of hopelessness...
....but also that feeling of hope.
I felt so much love for Hubert Bird, an 84 year old Jamaican widower, and as Gayle chose to tell this story by using alternating time frames, we get a real sense of who Hubert was and is.
The hostility and racism that was so very much the case in the 1950's feels a little uncomfortable to read at times, however the determination of Hubert not to give up, and find only positives in often unsettling situations is inspirational. The emotional journey Gayle takes us on increases when Hubert falls in love with Joyce, a British white woman. Together they are constantly faced with ignorance and bigotry, however their utter devotion to each other is a joy to read.
This is a really wonderful book....I miss you Hubert Bird.
The Library Enthusiast and Bad News....
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