Novels

It’s late December and fifteen-year-old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced house in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police, who have come to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing a shoe in a department store in town.

Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. But now she thinks she’s found ‘the One’ in enigmatic Eva, who works in the museum cafeteria where Gert catalogues Egyptian relics.