My series of historical Liverpool stories are based in the inner city area of Toxteth where I grew up.
All of my novels feature strong female characters – women struggling with life, love, and poverty in the 1970s inner city.
Mostly the stories deal with these themes with humour and as a writer, I very much enjoy combining comedy with tragedy.
That is certainly true of When The Sun Shines and The Sunshine Girl.
However, not everything in life is funny and I admit that my novella Sweet Little Things is quite sad although ultimately uplifting.
I hope readers will agree that there is truth in the story because I couldn’t have written it any other way.
Historical Liverpool Stories
Sweet Little Things
A heartbreaking novella about a real-life Eleanor Rigby – a shy widow is forced to confront her fears when a strange young woman moves next door.
It could have been a beautiful friendship.
She’s all alone and scared.
Her new neighbour could be a friend. She’s a young girl with a beautiful little son.
It could have been a beautiful friendship but will Pat be able to face her fears?
Read this nostalgic and uplifting look back into a gritty 1970s Liverpool.
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When The Sun Shines
When The Sun Shines is a stand-alone, prequel novella to the full-length novel, The Sunshine Girl.
Josie is stuck in a boring low paid job. Her snobby boss looks down at her and has made it his mission to make her miserable.
She dreams of a better life but with no qualifications or prospects, she fears she may be stuck forever living in a tiny house with her parents and brothers.
Her new relationship could change Josie’s life. But is she wrong to trust him?
Only time will tell.
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The Sunshine Girl
The Sunshine Girl is the follow-up story to the novella When The Sun Shines.
Secret shopping addict Josie knows she should stop.
Mick’s her only hope, but he’s got a secret too.
Stuck in a tiny house with over-protective parents, bickering brothers and a foul-mouthed bird she needs those gorgeous clothes to cheer her up.
Mick cheers her up, so does drinking the weekend away and getting one up on her blank-eyed boss.
But that blank-eyed boss is watching her and one little act of kindness gives him ammunition.
Now he’s ready to fire, and everything’s changed
When a brick comes flying through the window, her parents think it’s all her fault. But do catalogue companies break windows?
The truth is worse than that.
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TELL ME MAGIC LIES
When Christmas isn’t coming.
Christmas is supposed to be a time for family.
But Kevin’s father forgot about his family when he left home.
Now nobody believes in Christmas any more.
Josie can’t believe his mother told him the truth about Santa because Kevin’s only four years old.
But Kevin’s family stopped believing in magic the day their father left.
How can they when they can barely believe in food?
Josie wants to bring the magic back but that will take money and she doesn’t have much herself.
Can she bring Christmas back to the family Santa forgot?
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Piggy Monk Square
A stunningly well-written novel. I didn’t want it to end. Tense, joyous, terrifying, comic, tender, magic and tragic – just like childhood itself.
Willy Russell
A policeman lies seriously injured in a Liverpool cellar. Only two little girls know where he is but they’re too scared to tell. Time is running out for the policeman. Will the girls get help before it’s too late?
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