The ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ have always centered on Hazel Fauld and Tina Burns, but there are so many other wonderful characters hovering in the wings.

How did working-class Carol Baxter find herself in a (dysfunctional) relationship with the daughter of an Earl, years before she even met Tina? And then there’s that most unlikely of couples, Penny and Hazel Clearwater, Martine Fauld’s two business partners. How did loud, brash and beautiful Penny fall for her shy little wife?

Aleyse and Ruth Guptah are another unlikely pair. How did an East End beautician even meet a would-be Rock musician from the fringes of Dartmoor? And what was the role of a disturbing childhood dream? Then there’s thuggish Yvonne Wright, one-time St. Ann’s School bully. What really happened between her and the evil but beautiful Zara and how did she find herself the girlfriend of a mother called Julie and the adoring stepmother of her little girl?

There are the parallel tales of teenage sweethearts Tina and Rosie as they leave school and drift apart. Then finally we have Chantel Barham, or the ‘Skipper’ as so many call her. She’s the middle aged Sappho’s ‘Docker’: a cockney Miss Haversham, still determined never to love again twenty years after her heart was broken. That is until seeing Hazel Fauld’s devotion to a desperately ill Annie inspires her to re-think her life. The seven shorter tales in this book answer these and other questions as a few of my favourite characters finally get their own voices heard.

This, the 10th of the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series is now available on Amazon Kindle here in the UK, here in the US or world-wide. I hope you like it.