Synopsis In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged twenty-one, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her early weeks are an eye-opener: at the school she faces a class of fifty-two children, some of whose homes are...
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...
Author: Margaret Thornton Synopsis: Taken From the Book Life has been far from happy fo Maisie Jackson for a number of years, ever since her mother remarried after her beloved father’s death. Tormented by her stepfamily, Maisie dreams of...