In her second edition of The Rendon Boy to the Grave is Gone, Eleanor Berry shows many of Byron's impassioned utterances and unbridled language, as she sings of the madness of the brave, and the laughter which reigns supreme in their broken souls.

Berry's characters bleed in the gutter and dance happily at the same time. They are euphoric in their misery, yet miserable in their joy.

Berry's delivery is the roar of a lion, the crash of thunder and a sea of side-splitting laughter.

Berry has courage. She dares to say that she finds the society of social misfits and broken clowns, more important than society itself.

However dark her subject matter, the more comical the Reader finds it. Interestingly, the characters in all Eleanor Berry's books, are Londoners, the city she was born in.

The above description fits The Rendon Boy to the Grave is Gone, which is unarguably her best book.

William Miles
The Brighton Writers' Journal