My new novel, the 16th in the ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ series, is out on Kindle and we continue the story of main characters Hazel and Tina, now in their thirties, two decades after we first met them as school seniors in ‘Haze’.  This time we focus on Hazel’s younger sister Sofie.

Sofie is all grown up now at 20, but just as incorrigible as ever. Like her mother, Debbie Stewart, she’s turned out to be a hugely talented musician and is trying to establish herself professionally. But unlike Deb, and her two older sisters, she doesn’t want to be in a band. She’s ferociously self reliant and determined to make it as a solo artist. On the whole, she’s a happy and confident young woman with a mischievous sense of humour. But she’s haunted by the loss of her first love, Amber, who abandoned her for, of all things, a man. Other relationships don’t exactly go well either, especially when she dates the evil Jade. Even so, she remains best friends with her old school-mate, Andrew, who she’s more than a little bit confused about. She becomes very close to Hazel and Tina’s friend, Katie, now a famous actress, but whose own love life is as bewildering as ever. A wealthy theatre owner takes her under her wing and her music career starts to really take off. Then she begins recording her second album and gets to know a distinctly eccentric sound engineer. As ever in Saltbury there are laughs and tears throughout while Martine, Sofie’s other mother, tries hard to keep some sort of order.

‘Sofia’ is available in the UK here, in the US here, and world-wide.