At the beginning of ‘RF’, one of the stories in Tom East’s latest book, the main character decides to ‘tell the truth, instead of letting platitudes about the go-ahead business world flow …’ And he adds, a little bit later, ‘seeing things from inside is so different.’

​

   Indeed, the more so as the things one sees from inside happened some time ago and between then and now one has come to find new meanings for them. What one took for granted at one time or another in their life, acquires a new, profound, significance that is worth sharing with others.

​

   An apparently simple gesture, someone’s odd habit, people pretending to be what they aren’t, relatives long gone,  trinkets that bring up memories, places that do matter now … That’s what Tom East writes about, with nostalgia, with gentle (self) irony and humour, perhaps having in mind Hemingway’s famous line, ‘Write the truest sentence that you know’.