Comedy Alcohol Trauma and Games By Diana Holbourn
Paperback published by Windy Seaside Publishing 4th September 2023 ISBN 9781739180997
Age 13-14 Years
Child Genius Becky Bexley helps to organise a lot of fun at university, some for charity.
She turns out to have a talent for stand-up comedy. Alcohol comes up for discussion one day as students talk about embarrassing things they did while drunk and the harmful effects of alcohol on the body.
Becky helps a girl overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, and a little boy with anxiety problems that’s blighting his life.
Becky’s advice is based on genuine therapy techniques and psychological research and the books in this series combine humour with handy information.
MY REVIEW
I couldn’t be more over the moon reading another book from my favourite series by my top favourite author, Diana Holbourn.
I’m loving how Becky Bexley at ten years old, has conquered her confidence, stage by stage and literally being on stage, and how she has grown giving first class help to those who are in need of advice.
It seemed strange to a lot of people that Becky Bexley went to university when she was just ten. She was a child genius, but still they thought it was remarkable, unsurprisingly. But since Becky had got to school and done her A levels abnormally young, she didn’t mind it when people thought of her as weird.
When Becky is at a university show, the comedian didn’t think his jokes were appropriate for someone of Becky’s age. He got it wrong, he just presumed she must be the daughter of a mature student.
Brave Becky has a go at being on stage telling jokes that surprisingly made her fellow students laugh. I don’t drink any alcohol whatsoever or nonalcoholic wine. All I drink is tea or water. But One of Becky’s friends drinks alcohol to help her do her written work. Becky and her student friends have a big discussion how alcohol can effect you, and the long term damage alcohol can do to you. I remember my my late father telling me what certain words were in the Cockney slang way, so was really surprised to see the good old fashioned Cockney rhyming slang words used in sentences by Becky’s friend’s mother.
There’s a really deep heart felt scene where Becky helps her friend Zoe with her nightmares. Although Becky Bexley is just ten years old, she is really good at giving advice as she is a student on a psychology course, reading a lot of psychology books.
All the Becky Bexley series are for middle grade readers, from the age of 13-18 years but I highly recommend the Becky Bexley books to adults, as you will have a great laugh reading the series too.
Thank you so much literally pr for sending me another one of my favourite books in the Becky Bexley series, by my favourite author to read and review and for inviting me to take part in this fantastic blog tour.
About author Diana Holbourn
I was born on a cold winter’s night. The sun cheerfully came out to greet me; but my mum, a stickler for propriety, shooed it away in irritation, because it was the wrong time of day for the sun to be out; so it didn’t stay long. Unfortunately it was so intimidated by her attitude that it’s rarely come out since, and that’s why we normally have such cloudy weather in this country. When I was seven, I fell in love with a fruit fly and declared I wanted to marry it. A scientist told me that would be impossible, at least if I wanted to have children with it, since humans and flies are too genetically dissimilar for that. But he offered to genetically modify us both to make us more like each other. He got to work immediately. The fly developed some impressive human characteristics and grew spectacularly; but unfortunately, since he neglected to tinker with the genes that determined its life span, it died soon afterwards, since fruit flies only live for weeks. I don’t know why he didn’t realise that would happen. But it meant the hours of work he’d poured into the project were wasted. That didn’t deter him though, and he carried on the genetic modifications on me for some time afterwards. I was too young then to think to question why he would do that when there was no need for them any more. But I ended up with some remarkable fly-like characteristics. I was bullied a bit at school by people who thought they were weird. But when I left, I was heartened to discover that the wider community accepted me with no problem, many of them feeling sorry for me for looking so much like a fly, assuming it must have been caused by a rare birth defect. Thankfully, the genetic modifications didn’t affect the functioning of my brain – at least not too much. So it’s still fairly human-like, so I’ve still been able to write my books. Some might say they’re a bit weird. But what can you expect when they were written by someone with a brain that’s part-fly, part-human? You can find author Diana Holbourn on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/BeckyBexleyBook
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