2006-08-31 More of Brown's Whacky Mother and Aunt

Readers of the great Rita Mae Brown classic "Six of One" will already know that the semi-autobiographical characters Juts and Wheezie made a welcome comeback in "Bingo"; the bonus of this book, sort of a Bingo "prequel" is that so does Six of One's star character Celeste Chalfonte, definitely my favourite all time Brown character. Loose Lips is very good and very funny but not quite (by a cat's whisker) up to Bingo. But all the laughs, episodes, tragic family moments you would expect are there in abundance and little Nicky shows up again

Other reading: You can meet the real sisters in "Rita Will" the author's autobiography and you can read the first incarnation of Nicky in Brown's "Ruby Fruit Jungle".

James of Hammersmith