The Crooked Sea

What is The Crooked Sea? In reality it is the wide expanse of muddy sand and the diverse and fascinating shoreline that winds in and out around Morecambe Bay, whose name indeed means the bent shore. It is where my first two novels The Crooked Sea and Return to the Crooked Sea are partly set. The titles themselves convey the beauty, the danger and the treachery of those sands as well as the perfidious nature of life itself for the characters in these Victorian novels.

It was a casual remark from my Aunt Mary that started me off as a novelist. She wanted to know what had happened to her grandfather who had vanished on those very sands. A family mystery? I had to give it a go! I tried every possible source to find out what had happened to this ordinary man who over a hundred years ago had vanished into thin air. But did he? Here were shadows, coincidences, similar names; more to the story, I found, than met the eye. I had always wanted to write and here was an untold story opening up before my very eyes. The Crooked Sea was launched in 2009 and the story of these strange beginnings has been told in newspapers, magazines and on radio.

Return to the Crooked Sea is a sequel to my first novel, but can also stand alone as a separate work. Indeed, some people have enjoyed it without realising it has a prequel. It was launched at the Stone Book Festival in 2010. Both books have been transcribed to audio format for the benefit of clients of Galloways Society for the Blind.

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