A great review of my book by Christoph Fischer.
I am delighted to present you my review of Mick Canning’s novel “Making Friends with the Crocodile”. Having followed Mick’s blog posts about India for some time, I was eagerly awaiting it.
The book focuses on women in rural India. “If you live near the river, you better make friends with the Crocodile” is an Indian proverb.
In the novel we get to see simple lives, where people struggle to make a living, earn a reputation and survive in a world full of crocodiles. Those crocodiles come in all shapes and forms: friends, family, strangers, laws, conventions…
Surviving isn’t easy, especially if you are a woman.
The story of Siddiqui and her family revolves largely around an unfortunate evening incident that involves her daughter in law and the friend of her husband. How people and the community respond to said incident shows the difficulties women face.
At first I didn’t…
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Mick Canning 
Mr. Canning,
Congratulations on the great review!
I didn’t know the theme of the book but now I’m rather eager to read it…I’m sure none of us will be disappointed
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Thanks, Divya. Really hope you do like it!
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What a Brilliant review Mick! You deserve only the best.
Unfortunately my kindle copy is yet to be read. My life is crazy right now. But I’m keeping it as a treat once I get my Divorce papers 😀
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Good luck with that! And thanks!
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you must feel really satisfied that you are getting such great reviews
as you know its my holiday read in august! -)
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I’m delighted – and rather flattered, in fact. It still seems difficult to believe that they are about my book!
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Mick that was a beautiful review on your book. I haven’t gotten the time to download the book yet. So will do it soon and let you know how it was. Am sure it is damn good.
Meena.
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thanks, Meena. I certainly hope you like it!
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Great to see the book review, so did you travel for the book in particular. Will read it for sure…
I think it should be reviewed by someone from an Indian origin too as we are more aware of what’s happening and will be able to better relate. Wish you success with this book and lots more in future… 🙂
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Thanks Subhash. No, I travelled anyway, and the book came out of those travels. It would be great if it were reviewed by someone of Indian origin; it was kindly beta-read by one of my Indian blogging friends, which was extremely helpful, but not yet reviewed!
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Will share some thoughts after I have gone through though am not a writer nor a reviewer but from a perspective of the Indian connect and the story, regarding writing you are much better than me, so really wont be able to comment on that area.
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Everything is helpful! Thanks, Subhash.
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A really good review of your book, Mick. It gave me a real taste of the story and although I’ve not yet got round to getting your book from Amazon to my Kindle, I am hoping to do so when I have finished reading my current book. Congratulations again, Mick, Ellie x
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Thanks, Ellie. Yes, it’s a great review.
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Very nice! Congratulations!
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Thanks, Rajiv.
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How awesome!
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thank you!
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A wonderful review, Mick – congratulations!
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Thanks, Helen.
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Still not available on Kobo e-reader 😦
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Ah, I’ve only Kindled it so far. That’s a timely reminder for me to look at Kobo.
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I have just ordered this for my holiday read. I don’t have a Kindle ( yuk… awful things) and now I see it is available as a real book (!) I have ordered it. Will take it as my preferred Book Choice for August. thank you
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Thank you, Jackie! I really hope that you enjoy it!
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Hi Mick, I just checked again this morning and your book is not yet available for the Kobo e-readers. Any idea when that will happen?? Thanks
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Hi Kate. Oh, my apologies for this, but it slipped off my radar completely. I spent a frustrating day attempting to launch the book on Print on demand in India, a couple of weeks ago, which went completely wrong, and I retired to lick my wounds somewhat. I will go back and look at Kobo – it might be relatively straightforward. I’ll let you know what happens.
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No rush at all, I just was keen to read the book if I could! I am sure this kind of thing is never straight forward, so please do it in your own time, there is only so much energy one can expend on such things. No rush, really.
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