Love Lane 8th September 2025
From the Canadian prairies to the streets of 1950s Liverpool – is it ever too late to start life again? When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed...
Blogs in September 2025
Rough Music 16th August 2023
Julian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the coast of North Cornwall should be perfect, especially when distant American cousins join the party. But their arrival brings upheaval and unexpected turmoil. It is only...
Mother’s Boy 4th December 2021
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura’s husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis...
Take Nothing With You 25th August 2019
1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother’s quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He...
A Place Called Winter 29th February 2016
A shy but privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and...
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