A picture, they say, is worth a thousand word. But Joanna Holbrook-Sutherland senses that a photograph of a homeless woman she sees at an exhibit in a trendy London gallery can change her life–if only she can locate the woman, whose haunting face has been also haunting her dreams.
With a compulsiveness that amazes her family and friends and frightens herself, Jo assembles the crumbs of information that leads her to a frigid park in Whitechapel and to Rocky, a young woman with fearful secrets. But the hardest part is still ahead, as Jo deals with Rocky’s debilitating physical and mental consequences of living on the street for five years and with the horrors that drove Rocky there in the first place.
“I first read this story online years ago and have read it several times since. I loved it then, just as much as I love it now. This is a story that gripped me from the first page right through to it’s climatic ending. I was so pleased to see this re-published as I feel this is one story that new readers to lesfic deserve to have the pleasure of reading.” — Terry’s Lesfic Reviews
Nuance
218 pp. ● 5.5×8.5
$12.95 (pb) ● $6.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-939562-52-4 (pb)
FICTION – Romance
FICTION – Lesbian
Alison Carpenter lives on the outskirts of the historical and beautiful City of Bath, England. Having failed on all levels at school, she developed an enjoyment of reading and then writing, and was happy to prove those final school reports wrong. She began writing online fan fiction about a certain female warrior and went on from there to original fiction. Alison made some wonderful friends online, all of whom are somehow involved in online fiction and publishing. Some of those friends, including Barbara Davies and Stephanie Solomon were a great help in the early attempts of a writer with little confidence.