writing: novels
All three of my novels will be published by Snowbooks during 2009 and 2010. Click on the book covers to see more information and to pre-order.
The Letters: publication date 2nd March 2009
Violet Ackerman has drifted through a career, four
children and a divorce without ever knowing who she is or what she wants.
After moving to the coast, she starts receiving a series of mysterious
letters sent from a mother and baby home in 1959, written by a pregnant
twenty-year-old Elizabeth to her best friend. Who is sending Violet these
letters, and why?
Read the first few paragraphs here.
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The Blue Handbag:
publication date 3rd August 2009
After forty years of happy marriage, Leonard thought he
knew his wife Rose as well as he knew himself. It's only after her sudden
death that he finds her old handbag, which contains a mystery he can't
ignore. Accompanied by Lily, his wife's childhood friend, Leonard becomes a
reluctant detective as his whole life starts to unravel...
Read first few paragraphs here.
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Thaw:
publication date 1st of February 2010
Ruth is thirty two years old and doesn't know if she
wants to be thirty three. Her meticulously-ordered lonely life as a
microbiologist is starved of pleasure and devoid of meaning. She decides to
give herself three months to decide whether or not to end her life, and we
read her daily diary as she struggles to make sense of her past and grapples
with the pain of the present.
Read the first few paragraphs here.
Have a look at some of my favourite novels here.