Muriel Gray
Author of The Trickster
About the Author
Works by Muriel Gray
Shite Hawks [short fiction] 2 copies
Three Wishes for Raggy Dan 1 copy
School Gate Mums 1 copy
Policeman Potter's Helmet 1 copy
The Pan book of dreams 1 copy
Associated Works
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy (2023) — Contributor — 13 copies
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- Canonical name
- Gray, Muriel
- Birthdate
- 1958-08-30
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- East Kilbride, Scotland, UK (birth)
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Education
- Glasgow School of Art
- Occupations
- Author
- Organizations
- BBC TV
Radio Forth (Scotland)
University of Edinburgh (Rector)
Trees for Life (Scotland) - Awards and honors
- Scottish Press Awards columnist of the year (2001)
British Fantasy Award Shortlist (Novel, 1995)
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- Works
- 15
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 553
- Popularity
- #45,138
- Rating
- 3.5
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- 14
- ISBNs
- 33
- Languages
- 4
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- 2
Very prevalent head hopping within scenes - an especially bad sequence is when two characters are skating downhill together and 'he' is a different one from sentence to sentence so it is almost impossible to understand - and a lot of characters who are set up to do something - the longsuffering resort deputy is a main one who keeps popping up - but in the end come to nothing (literally in his case as he's present at a scene of major mayhem but you don't even find out if he's killed). Another one is that the story starts with three railway man in a train together - a lot is made of one of them having had a bad experience before in the railway tunnel so you think he is going to be the hero and then he is completely dropped after the first chapter.
The conclusion is also very unconvincing - how on earth does the hero stay out of jail when there is no evidence of his innocence that would be accepted by any of the police other than the one who helps him and his family, but who is already marginalised by the other law enforcement officers. As I believe the US version was edited down from this UK edition I've read, I wonder what material was taken out and whether that would make it a better book, but as it is, I can't say I enjoyed it.… (more)