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The Visitor
The Visitor relates the story of the twilight days of Miss an elderly Irish-American actress living in a nursing home in the west country of England towards the end of the new century.
Miss Evie has had an interesting career. As well as being a famous actress, she was a UN children’s ambassador, a successful life-coach (with her husband, Bren, a historian and university lecturer), a self-imposed cultural exile and a semi-professional coffee taster. Now, at the grand old age of 103 - thanks to scientific advances - she doesn’t feel a day older than a sprightly 85 - and is busy giving talks, visiting local schools and writing notes for her autobiographical self-help book which she intends to call ‘The Visitor’.
With her anecdotes, opinions and memories on a journey through the major transitions of the 21st Century. Always a larger-than-life character, along the way she dispenses useful advice to the characters she meets and discusses her impressions with her ‘synth’: a companion sentient software program called ‘Xantia’ (a gift for 'services rendered' from the Chinese government). Beware, though! She is not one to be her temper and wit are as peppery as her 'O'Malley' red hair and she has not mellowed with age.
Miss Evie has had an interesting career. As well as being a famous actress, she was a UN children’s ambassador, a successful life-coach (with her husband, Bren, a historian and university lecturer), a self-imposed cultural exile and a semi-professional coffee taster. Now, at the grand old age of 103 - thanks to scientific advances - she doesn’t feel a day older than a sprightly 85 - and is busy giving talks, visiting local schools and writing notes for her autobiographical self-help book which she intends to call ‘The Visitor’.
With her anecdotes, opinions and memories on a journey through the major transitions of the 21st Century. Always a larger-than-life character, along the way she dispenses useful advice to the characters she meets and discusses her impressions with her ‘synth’: a companion sentient software program called ‘Xantia’ (a gift for 'services rendered' from the Chinese government). Beware, though! She is not one to be her temper and wit are as peppery as her 'O'Malley' red hair and she has not mellowed with age.
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2022
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