It is 1966, and things are changing in the close-knit Napier Road. Stephanie is 9 years old, and she has plans:
1. Get Jesus to heal her wonky foot
2. Escape her spiteful friend Dawn
3. Persuade her mum to love her
But everything changes when Stephanie strikes up a relationship with Mr Man, who always seems pleased to see her. When Dawn goes missing in the woods during the World Cup final, no one appears to know what happened to her - but more than one of them is lying.
May 1997, and Stephanie has spent her life trying to bury the events of that terrible summer. When a man starts following her on the train home from London, she realises the dark truth of what happened may have finally caught up with her.
Although there were few books in our house growing up, there were always plenty of stories. My father used to take us on his knee on wet afternoons and start, ‘As I was going through the woods, I met…’; and my grandfather would do the same, but begin: ‘When I was a boy, living in Cornwall, I got to know a family of bears…’
"Stories were chiefly for entertainment and comfort, but we came to enjoy the core values embedded in them and the way things turned out all right in the end. I think I began to learn then that although real life doesn’t have neat story arcs, storytelling is a way of making sense of the world."
Jane Bailey is the author of seven novels and a book of comic verse. Her first novel was shortlisted for the Dillons Prize., her fifth novel, 'What Was Rescued', for the RONA awards, and her her latest novel, 'Sorry Isn't Good Enough', is published by Orion in 2022.
Jane has been a writer-in-residence for Cheltenham Festivals' First Story for several years, which promotes creative writing in schools serving low-income communities. She has also been writer-in-residence for Beyond Words, which takes creative writing to young people in Gloucestershire Hospitals.
Jane lives in Gloucestershire.
Twitter: @JaneBailey15
PUBLICATION DATE: 5th February 2022
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