Potters assemble! I review Thrown by Sara Cox
Thrown – the blurb
The inhabitants of the Inventor’s Housing Estate keep themselves to themselves.
The dilapidated community center is no longer the beating heart of the estate that Becky remembers from her childhood. So the new pottery class she’s helped set up feels like a fresh start. And not just for her.
The assorted neighbours come together to try out a new skill, under the watchful eye of their charismatic teacher, Sasha. And as the soft unremarkable lumps of clay are hesitantly, lovingly moulded into delicate vases and majestic pots, so too are the lives of four women. Concealed passions and heartaches are uncovered, relationships shattered and formed, and the possibility for transformation is revealed.
Throw down
I was excited to read that Cox wrote this inspired by her time presenting the Great Pottery Throw Down. I love that show and am a wannabe potter so Thrown was right up my street. It’s an easy read about a group of women struggling to come to terms with how life has landed for them. Yes you know how it’s all going to end but who doesn’t enjoy reading a hug in a mug, hand thrown of course.
It has a big heart, covers a lot of topics (quite sympathetically) AND has pottery. What more could you ask for?
