Planting Out: The second Borough novel (The Borough, Book 2)

O'Brien, Gerry

ISBN 10: 0861404408 / ISBN 13: 9780861404407

Published by Colin Smythe Ltd, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Planting Out: The second Borough novel (The Borough, Book 2)
• Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861404408
• ISBN 13: 9780861404407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

What does it feel like to be turned into a saint? Well, a lot of fuss and bother, probably. So the corpse of the ancient Gardener, cooling on a slab in The Borough's secret Abbey, isn't waiting to find out. It's happy being dead. All it wants is peace. That and to be far beyond the reach of its Abbot's unholy ambitions. And then there's the microchip that knows everything there is to know. But it's lost and cold and dying in the winter's ice and snow. The last of its transistors begins to flicker out. Is there anything at all that can save it now? Planting Out is the second of the Books of The Borough by Gerry O’Brien. The soap saga continues, open and read... Soldier, sailor, dolls' house maker, Gerry O'Brien has been them all though not necessarily in that order, it's just the way it scans best. But of course there have been other things too – lorry driving, stacking shelves, bread delivery, scrapes with death. Though that was all years and years ago. Now he's been a full-time writer for longer than anything else except a husband, a father and alive.

Reviews

There has been talk that O'Brien is the "next Terry Pratchett," not that we need one. Whether that is accurate remains to be seen, but this yarn is certainly good for laughs. The second book in what promises to become a series, it is set in the Bourough, a fictional borough of London. In the story's beginning, the monastery's Gardener lies on his deathbed, and the Chip is stolen from its high-security building by a gang of robbers who never expected to end up in the Bourough. The fates of the Chip and the Corpse (formerly known as the Gardener) are about to be inextricably linked. Fortunately, the desires of each are simple, albeit incompatible. There are, however, sinister plots afoot that simply will not let either rest in peace. Things all get quite shaken up as the Abbot and councilmen plot, the robbers search for the Chip (lost in a fall), the Chip seeks safety, and the Corpse seeks a place to lie down and be dead. Silly fun: the Bourough shows great potential. Regina Schroeder
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