FEATURED AUTHOR - J.P. Alters is Jamaican/English and lives in the South-coast of England with her family. She currently divides her time between spending time with family and friends, and her work. When she's not writing supernatural thrillers, J.P. has two day jobs; working with a local homeless project, and mentoring students who are neuro-diverse. As our Author of the Day, she tells us all about her book, Psychic Echoes.
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In this account, most possible coming as a make up of his own diaries, the characters describe their day to day experience on a 5 month - 3000+ cattle drive. Indeed the drive which begins in Texas and ends in Montana details all of the trials and tribulations of the cowboys who take part.
Readers should not however be put off by the title "The Log of a Cowboy" which appears to suggest a diary or documentary. In fact the book is a brilliant read as well as being an eye opener as to the real conditions of such long drives during the mid to late 19th century.
In this book a fictitious account is made of the actual son (and third living child) of Henry VIII. Edward who will soon become King swaps clothes and then by mischance swaps place with a look-alike pauper who has the hard life in Charring Cross, London. Befriended by few, Prince Edward must then overcome the sudden lowering of his status, whilst at the same time Tom (the pauper) must endure a meteoric rise in his. All of this literally at the time of King Henry's death.
Twain's account is both satirical and thought-provoking in a general sense, and dramatic in the sense that the reader continues to wonder whether the Pauper or the true Prince will rise to be King upon the date of coronation.
Potential readers should not be fooled by the addition of genre for this book as being for Young Readers - indeed if anything whilst the story line seems of interest for the young, the content, satire, and real life violence confronting the main protagonists is written with the adult in mind.