Author Archives: Jacssisters

Jim Perrin protests too much

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The following was our comment on a story on the To Hatch a Crow site:

“It is all very well for Jim Perrin to lead a protest against wind turbines on his ‘native’ Welsh hills’ thus augmenting his ‘image’ and showing his passionate attachment to Wales — the ‘countryside of his forbears’.”

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Sir Andrew Motion wrote in his review of West in The Guardian, 24/07/2010, ‘of his [Jim Perrin’s] native Wales’,  and Stephen Knight wrote in the T.L.S. 14/01/2011:  ‘the return to his Welsh roots in North Wales’. ‘Scotinparis’ wrote on the ensuing Guardian review thread, 24/07/2010:  ‘Fairly sure Jim Perrin comes from Manchester so it’s not his “native Wales” ‘, and ‘Walterluke’ wrote in answer on the same thread — ‘however, he is a Welsh speaker [?] and of Welsh birth ’.  WE believe that ‘Walterluke’ is one of the aliases which Jim Perrin used in the course of this dialogue to plant misinformation and to ‘puff’ his book West…

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However, he is NOT Welsh by heritage as he continually asserts — amazing what information may be found on the internet, and we intend to show his genealogy chart shortly… Continue reading →

Jim Perrin accused Jac’s sisters of ‘Pillaging’

One has only to read so far as page 6 of West to come upon these virulent words. We quote them in full for those who have not read Jim Perrin’s book:

There was nothing to detain me in the caravan by the stream where she and I had mostly lived for the last eighteen months.* To continue there was clearly going to become increasingly difficult and inconvenient as well as painful, for pathological savagery circles after a death, breeding in families, seeking a focus and seeking a target, the guilt of those who neglected and exploited and abused fixing invariably post mortem on those who cared for and provided.

Autonomous human love is always a threat to those whose claims on affection are based not on right behaviour but through propinquity. In the aftermath of a death, the close and caring bereaved are often made homeless, their joint belongings pillaged, whilst the erstwhile-negligent blood-tied ones are emotionally and materialistically merciless in their reappropriations of the deceased. Continue reading →

Our response to comments on the ‘Walk Highlands’ site

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The following comments relate to a thread about Jim Perrin’s ‘West:’  on the Walkhighlands website forum

To ‘kevsbald’ re.  ‘West:’ …
We would like to point out that ‘the book details’ —  where our sister, Jac, is concerned are mostly incorrect. We believe that the way in which Jim Perrin has written of her is abusive and mendacious.

‘icemandan’ writes that ‘Perrin is  increasingly incongruous amidst the gear ads in TGO and increasingly the only reason to read it!  Quite scathing really and we cannot help but wonder how the editor himself, Cameron MacNeish, would feel on reading this; it could also be thought to be ‘biting the hand that feeds’, when we consider how instrumental that gentleman has been, with his help and consistent support, for 24 years, in establishing Jim Perrin’s ‘reputation’ as a writer. ‘Caberfeideh’ says in reply to ‘kevsbald’ — ‘I do, they all die in the end.’ Undoubtedly the real tragedy of this book, as surely as it must be in Jim Perrin’s life, is the suicide of his deeply disturbed and unhappy son. Continue reading →