The Stern Wave

A second collection, The Stern Wave, plays with our sense of environmental conscience but is also quirky; sentimental at times, shocking at times; and King (as always) takes on many personas. A Trinidadian teenager in `Stilt School,' a budding comedian in `At the Edinburgh Fringe,' an 18th century Cornish miner in `Wheal Prudence' extinct copper mine, `Cornwall, 1834,' and even an Irish housewife rejected by her GAA loving husband in `First of the Month.' The different voices and personas in The Stern Wave are what gives it it's quirkiness, spontaneity and a wry, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.