MISS PURDY’S CLASS In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horrified, but she has the support of her fiance, a recently ordained clergyman. Her early...
A COFFIN FOR THE CANARY The time sequence of this extraordinary story is not simple, nor are the events that do (or do not) revolve within it. Olivia, half separated from her husband, meets a young man. Her car is stolen. The young man is shot. Her...
ABOVE THE BRIGHT BLUE SKY Life for Maisie Jackson has been far from happy for a number of years – ever since her mother re-married after her beloved father’s death. Suffering abuse at her cruel stepbrother’s hand, and mercilessly...