Laura Laura - Richard Francis Science Fiction and Fantasy At once delightful travelogue and

At once delightful travelogue and passionate defence

answering the question of why anyone

Why is everyone chewing so loudly

A Fresh Young Voice from the Plains

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Laura Laura - Richard Francis Science Fiction and Fantasy At once delightful travelogue and"[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny." Tessa HadleyAn elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman on his way home from the cinema. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, who is forced to confront the mystery of his own past and to ask himself if he has lived a good life or