By: Guy Slater
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Guy Slater is a writer, theatre and TV director, and producer of many long-running TV drama series, including Miss Marple, starring Joan Hickson, and Love Hurts,starring Zoe Wanamaker and Adam Faith. He founded and ran the Horseshoe Theatre Company at the Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke and on tour, and has written over twenty TV dramas, seven radio dramas, four stage plays and has published five books. He knows Cuba – the setting for Hurricane Maggie – well, having first visited it when his father was the British Ambassador in Havana.
Hurricane Maggie is an exciting and original novel which held my interest right to the last full stop.It is the fascinating story of a strong successful woman trying to make sense of her troubled life and ending up causing chaos and even death.
It is set on the still emerging island of Cuba which together with an awesomely powerful hurricane features as the backdrop to the unfolding drama The writer has personal knowledge and great affection for the island which adds to the feeling of authenticity ,and the protagonists are so lovingly drawn and engaging I found myself spellbound and could hardly put the book down until the last page was read.
Read it . It’s a cracker!
A most enjoyable, engaging and thought provoking read. Cuba is a place that exerts great fascination for cultural and political reasons. The writer’s knowledge of and affection for the island informs detailed and atmospheric descriptions allowing the reader to conjure dusty white washed images, hear the voices and feel the rising heat.
Cuba also fascinates because of its revolution and heroic attempt to create a truly Marxist society only miles off shore of the biggest capitalist nation on the globe. The sense of different vales comes over in incidental details, for example the taxi driver has to get to his next shift as a practicing doctor or the descriptions of Cuban hospitals.
The story is told in the first person by the principal character, Maggie. Her conflict with her father Bernard Harris is the heart of the book. I enjoy portrayals of cantankerous recalcitrant old bastards and he is the real thing. The tensions between him and Maggie encapsulates convincingly both personal and ideological conflicts. The book succeeds on several levels. It drives along at a good pace intriguing and entertaining. It convinces and transports. It engages and asks questions. I recommend it highly.
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