Miller Street SW22
by Jude Hayland
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Pub Date 28 Feb 2021 | Archive Date 1 Mar 2021
Troubador Publishing Ltd. | Matador
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Description
A story of loss, love, guilt and ultimately hope and redemption, Miller Street SW22 follows a year in the lives of five neighbours who move into the street in the autumn of 2005, each brought to south west London for a new start. Catherine Wells, recently widowed, Sam Gough and his invalid wife, Lydia, and Violet Lawrence find themselves drawn together by Frances Chater into preparations for a centenary street party. The indomitable organiser, she compels them onto a committee and thus they begin to forge cautious friendships.
What they share with each other of their past lives, however, is limited. Both Catherine and Sam feel guilt for actions that haunt them whilst Frances has created a lie of a life, a substitute identity, in order to help her navigate the breakdown of her marriage. Only Violet, youthful and unfettered, is free of self-recrimination and duplicity. Meanwhile, in Brighton, Andrew Chater, Frances’ estranged husband, negotiates his new life in Pilgrim Square with his lover, Charlotte Prideaux, unaware that Frances is intent on destroying this relationship and regaining her place as his wife.
As the months pass and the date of the street party grows closer, Catherine, Sam and Frances are unaware of what lies ahead. For the past, they are to discover, is not as fixed and immovable as they have assumed. It can beguile. Ultimately, what is uncovered in the summer of 2006 offers each of them a future unimagined and an entirely new understanding of the past.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
I loved this book set over one year in a South West London street. Five people move into a house in Miller Street recently converted into four apartments. They all have secrets in their past which are gradually and intriguingly revealed through the book. The characters are well-drawn and completely believable. The author's research has been meticulous - I could picture Miller Street and felt that I knew the Harriet Howe House museum. I wished that it was a real museum that I could visit! I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well-written and satisfying story. - Carol Randall
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781800468627 |
| PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 200 |
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