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To Be Like You
Set on the Isle of Wight in the sweltering summer of 1962, To Be Like You tells the story of Charlie and Carol, twins who join the drift of aimless souls into casual work at a holiday camp. But Charlie and Carol are far from aimless – they are sexual tricksters and blackmailers who have left their Soho turf for new territory.
Charlie has always been dominated by his twin. He is a pawn in her games, but on the night he leaves London he finally sees the one thing he wants in life. Joe. Charlie lays a trap to lure Joe to the Isle of Wight and Joe unwittingly takes the bait. But as Charlie loses control over the events he has set in motion, his secret obsession with the unattainable Joe combines with the twisted dynamic of the twins’ relationship to create a cycle of violence and revenge which demonstrates the destructive power of illicit love.
The Longest Fight
Set in 1950s London The Longest Fight is the gripping story of Jack Munday. Jack is a boxing manager, desperate to find his way into the big time and willing to follow any route necessary.He wants a better life for himself and his sister Pearl and he thinks he’s found their winning ticket - Frank an aspiring young boxer is taken under Jack’s wing. But the developing relationship between Pearl and Frank threatens to destroy everything Jack has worked for.
Jack is trapped in a cycle of past mistakes and past experiences, he is unable to break free or so he thinks at first. From his prison cell Jack views the slides of his life: the romance, the successes, and the failures. He tries to understand what it was that changed their lives forever on that first fight night.
Played out in the grim and bitter world of boxing the novel interrogates the role of family, ambition, and obsession, the struggle to find escape in a world of adversity. What is the true nature of Jack and Pearl's relationship? How far will Frank go to further his career? And will Jack risk everything for the chance of redemption?
Quite Suddenly One Night
Are there secrets that should never be told? Accidents where there is no blame? Set against the tragedy at Bethnal Green air raid shelter in 1943, where 173 people lost their lives, Ivy a journalist and Bill a photographer try to find the truth of what happened that night and who was to blame. Determined that the secret should be exposed they set out to speak to the people who were caught up in the horrendous events. But there are those who want the story forgotten and buried along with the dead, and those who would use it to their own ends.
Ivy and Bill’s investigation becomes a battle for the truth but can they see the changes that are happening in their own lives? What they find is a sequence of events that no one could have predicted, and what they discover is that life can change so suddenly. Love doesn’t always grow stronger with the years, sometimes it burns itself out like a struck match and sometimes once a spark has taken hold it can consume everything.
1943 and the war is far from being done. London is still a city under siege, all of life packed into the space of one day and one week can hold the secret of a lifetime. But what happens when the fighting is done? A deaf photographer bitter at what fate has dealt him can be redeemed and a young married woman can find the love she thought she already had. But success always comes at a price. Quite suddenly one night the world can change and there is no going back.
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