The Bus on Thursday
A Novel
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July 16, 2018
Australian author Barrett’s frantically original and sometimes overwrought novel traces the breakdown of headstrong young Eleanor Mellett. The story begins with her in precarious balance, having just lost a breast to cancer surgery and angrily broken up with her long-term lover. She’s offered a mid-term teaching job in the little Outback town of Talbingo, and it’s such a beautiful, friendly place that she can hardly believe her luck. But how did the previous teacher vanish? And why did she have so many locks on her cottage door? And is Eleanor’s new lover overly passionate or actually demonic? As Eleanor drinks too much, commits a series of grotesque blunders, and fights the paranoid suspicion that something is out to get her, readers begin to realize that not everything that’s going wrong can be her fault: some malevolent force really must be playing pranks on her. Told in a series of blog posts (though at times the conceit is hard to believe), the narrative races and stumbles from one darkly hilarious pratfall to the next, and is recommended for readers who can laugh while cringing.
August 1, 2018
In Australian filmmaker Barrett's (Rush Oh!) delightfully bizarre novel, Eleanor Mellett steps straight out of a chick-lit plot line into Wicker Man-type horror. Recovering from breast cancer at a young age and disappointed in her romantic life, Eleanor accepts a teaching job in the remote mountain town of Talbingo. The school is small, with only 11 pupils, and missing its previous teacher, Miss Barker, who mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night. The village seems idyllic, except for the pastor who continually quotes Bible verses regarding demonic possession and tries to exorcize the cancer-causing evil from Eleanor's body. There's also Daphne, who tells Eleanor that she's going to have to catch the bus on Thursday--the bus for the "afflicted." Oh, and Eleanor's new love interest is likely an incubus, who would really like her to have his baby. VERDICT This book deserves to find its (cult) audience. For readers who enjoy their horror elegantly twisted.--Jennifer Mills, Shorewood-Troy Lib., IL
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