When eight-year-old Billy Bartlett is unexpectedly sent home form school after the Munich crisis in 1938, he witnesses his glamorous mother commit the most heinous of crimes. Keeping it secret for forty years, Billy, now a soap actor, is summoned to his ailing mother’s bedise. He reluctantly travels to see her, re-living their impassioned past.
The latest novel from Roland Curram touches upon the fears of empty nest syndrome. Is a new romance the answer to happiness once the kids have left home? When Betty Ashdown, a widow living in Brighton, marries Rex, an elderly millionaire, she is completely unprepared for what she finds. With one daughter an alcoholic, another, in love with a struggling actor, Betty discovers the path between loyalty to her family and happiness is as treacherous as the skeleton of the rusty West Pier she faces every morning. The consequences of long-ago events and secrets make her dream of a wealthy marriage turn into a waking nightmare.
In a Hampshire cottage on the eve of the twentieth century an unwanted child is born. Brought up in an institutional home, young Sarah Smith comes to the attention of one of the governors, Lady Isabel Kingsford, and becomes her maid servant. As we follow Sarah's story from rags to riches to romance, the author cleverly blends fact and fiction, bridging the emotional and historical divide between Edwardian and the modern world in a gripping and absorbing tale, one that explodes catastrophically in scandal and madness.
In 1946, Kenny is just three years old. He faces the usual childhood traumas, but set against the stark backdrop of an industrial West Yorkshire town. This book features his progress, from a naive three-year old, through to his teens - from falling in love at the age of 6, to his sexual fantasies over his music teacher in the secondary school.
When eight-year-old Billy Bartlett is unexpectedly sent home form school after the Munich crisis in 1938, he witnesses his glamorous mother commit the most heinous of crimes. Keeping it secret for forty years, Billy, now a soap actor, is summoned to his ailing mother’s bedise. He reluctantly travels to see her, re-living their impassioned past.
In a Hampshire cottage on the eve of the twentieth century an unwanted child is born. Brought up in an institutional home, young Sarah Smith comes to the attention of one of the governors, Lady Isabel Kingsford, and becomes her maid servant. As we follow Sarah's story from rags to riches to romance, the author cleverly blends fact and fiction, bridging the emotional and historical divide between Edwardian and the modern world in a gripping and absorbing tale, one that explodes catastrophically in scandal and madness.
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