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A review by narflet
The Chronicles of Narmo by Caitlin Moran
3.0
All of Caitlin Moran's fiction (this, [b:How to Build a Girl|20525628|How to Build a Girl|Caitlin Moran|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1410131752s/20525628.jpg|37105995], Raised by Wolves) have the same groundwork: large, working-class, family in Wolverhampton, with a central character that is appears to be semi-autobiographically based on CatMo at that age. I make that sound like it's a bad thing, but it's not. It does mean that things get rather repetitive, although How to Build a Girl suffered most from this as it also seemed to have whole incidents lifted wholesale from CatMo's actual life which I'd already read in [b:How to Be a Woman|10600242|How to Be a Woman|Caitlin Moran|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1405909800s/10600242.jpg|15507935].
This book doesn't have a plot, as such, and is more a series of episodes in the life of the Narmo family, with Morag as a focus. At the start, I thought this might focus on the kids becoming homeschooled, but after a couple of mentions this basically seems to be forgotten; they appear to get little structured education at home.
This is a fun book, it's a quick and easy read, and what sets it apart from CatMo's successive works is the Pratchettesque asides where inanimate objects are anthropomorphised; I'd like to see more writing like this from Caitlin Moran.
This book doesn't have a plot, as such, and is more a series of episodes in the life of the Narmo family, with Morag as a focus. At the start, I thought this might focus on the kids becoming homeschooled, but after a couple of mentions this basically seems to be forgotten; they appear to get little structured education at home.
This is a fun book, it's a quick and easy read, and what sets it apart from CatMo's successive works is the Pratchettesque asides where inanimate objects are anthropomorphised; I'd like to see more writing like this from Caitlin Moran.