Nice Girls Don't
by Sue Barnard
Book Description:
Who knows what secrets lie hidden in your family’s past?
Southern England, 1982.
At 25, single, and under threat of redundancy from her job in a local library,
Emily feels as though her life is going nowhere – until the day when Carl comes
into the library asking for books about tracing family history.
Carl is baffled by a mystery about his late grandfather: why is the name by
which Carl had always known him different from the name on his old passport?
Fascinated as much by Carl himself as by the puzzle he wants to solve, Emily
tries to help him find the answers. As their relationship develops, their quest
for the truth takes them along a complicated paper-trail which leads,
eventually, to the battlefields of the Great War.
In the meantime, Emily discovers that her own family also has its fair share of
secrets and lies. And old sins can still cast long shadows…
Can Emily finally lay the ghosts of the past to rest and look forward to a
brighter future?
A tale of discovery, love and fate.
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About the Author
Sue was born in
Wales some time during the last millennium.
After graduating
from Durham University with a degree in French, she returned to Manchester
(where she had spent her formative years) and got married, then had a variety
of office jobs before leaving the world of paid employment to become a
full-time parent. If she had her way,
the phrase “non-working mother” would be banned from the English language.
Sue has dabbled
with writing for most of her life. Her
first success was at primary school, where she won a competition run by
Cadbury’s which involved writing an essay about chocolate. Her prize was a tin containing a selection of
Cadbury’s products. She still has the
tin to this day, and keeps it as a reminder of her humble writing origins. The chocolate is long since gone, but the tin
is now home to her supply of pens and pencils.
In recent years she began to take writing more seriously and studied a
series of writing courses with the Open University. As well as having work published in Best
of Manchester Poets (Volumes 2 and 3), her achievements have included
winning a T-shirt for writing a limerick (which summed up the plot of Macbeth
in five lines) and winning first prize in Writing Magazine’s 2013 poetry
competition for new subscribers. In 2013
she joined the editorial team of Crooked
Cat Publishing, who also published her debut novel The Ghostly Father
(a new interpretation of the Romeo & Juliet story) in February 2014, and
her second novel Nice Girls Don’t (a romantic intrigue set in 1982) in
July 2014.
Sue’s mind is
sufficiently warped that she has also worked as a question-setter for BBC Radio
4’s fiendishly difficult Round Britain Quiz – a phase of her life which
caused one of her sons to describe her as “professionally weird.” She lives in Cheshire and Anglesey (thought
not at the same time – she isn’t THAT weird) with her husband and a large
collection of unfinished scribblings.
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