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Arms Around Frank Richardson - cover

Arms Around Frank Richardson

Sylvia Colley

Publisher: Muswell Press

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Summary

The impact of traumatic childhood experience reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life.  Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father, Alice, physically disabled and frustrated, Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents.  From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them. Until by chance they all come together in adulthood, the repercussions are explosive.  Spanning 30 years the scope of this novel is ambitious and the writing beautifully honed.  Character and sense of place are masterfully achieved.
Available since: 06/16/2022.
Print length: 325 pages.

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