Crimson Light Polished Wood

 Crimson Light Polished Wood

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       August 24, 2025

 

Author  Monica Raszewski.

Distributor:      Transit Lounge
ISBN:                 978-1-923023-45-1
Publisher:         Transit Lounge
Release Date:   August 2025  

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Crimson Light Polished Wood is a tender and gentle journey into the world of family, friends and the combination of both through the eyes of Lydia, a young impressionable and lonely young girl as she grows through the years searching for understanding, seeking to accept and desiring to create a tribute to a friend who changed so much in her younger world.

Gently provocative the story of Lydia unfolds through a house, two women and her mother Anna, a Polish immigrant who lives next door to Margaret and Leonora. These women are a couple in an age when this was kept carefully hidden, but was also intriguing to Lydia, who would often see them lying under the shade of the huge tree in the garden, enjoying their time away from prying eyes.

Margaret and Leonora introduced her to the gems of performance, art, and literature and upon the death of Margret, Leonora and Anna become friends with Leonora becoming accepted into their family adding another dimension to Lydia’s life.

On the death of Leonora some years later she discovers the house next door has been left to her brother to do with as he wishes, she has inherited several pieces of furniture and other assorted and treasured items.

She makes the decision to create a lasting, living memory to Leonora and in doing so exorcizes the ghosts of her past, understanding that time and life move on eternally, that whatever she has created will as all things eventually do, gently and inexorably fade from the public eye and come to an end.

Unusual though very readable Crimson Light Polished Wood dissects the bonds we all create, the severing of these bonds and the acceptance that many things influence the pathway taken when we seek understanding through compassion, understanding and acceptance.

Fiction, General