This collection of short stories, poetry and essays by award winning author, Phoebe Wilby highlights the truth in the statement that “everyone has a story to tell”.
Phoebe lays a fresh perspective on the ordinary, and not so ordinary, events of everyday life in her 13 stories, seven poems and three essays.
Her writing style emphasises the point that even the mundane can become interesting depending on the points of view of the reader and the story teller. It’s all relative, really.
The collection is named for “Point of View”, her winning entry of the 2002 Golden Key International Honour Society Literary Achievement Award for Excellence in Fiction.
“Point of View” is a fictionalised account of the effect of the September 11 tragedy in 2001 on the lives of three survivors and clearly demonstrates the theme of this collection.

Time marches on. Use it wisely...

These stories all have ‘time’ as their theme. Some deal with a specific point in time while others explore time in other ways.

For example, A Moment In Time is a mystery with overtones of ages past, A Modern Fairy Tale tells a light-hearted story of how two people might meet, and Bonnie and Claude explores how relationships might develop over time.

Included in this collection are stories resulting from interviews Phoebe had with three World War 1 soldiers, two of whom were imprisoned during the war, one in Europe and the other in the South Pacific.

Her favourite of these is from a 2002 interview with Eric Abraham, who at the time was 102 years old. She wrote a short piece about some of his experiences, intending to write more. He died a few years later and Phoebe regrets not taking the time to speak with him again.