The Seventh Rose

About the Book

Moving from the constant grime of the Potteries and the isolation of the Shropshire countryside to the smoke of London. Set in the sixties and seventies, this is the story of the beautiful Katie Gallagher growing up under the shadow of a childhood curse. After the mysterious disappearance of her best friend Sarah and an accident down the pits, at the tender age of eleven, she is forced to leave Biddulph, the town she loves, and move to the hamlet of Broadly in the Shropshire countryside. Unable to come to terms with her new life and failing to befriend the other two girls her age in Broadly, she throws herself into her schoolwork to while away her misery until the day that Meg Whittall arrives on the scene. She soon realizes that the characteristic Meg is just the tonic she needs and strikes up a friendship that is to last many years. But after some devastating news, she runs away to London with Meg to become a model and lands in the hands of the devious Danny Fisher. Eventually rescued by an old friend, she makes it to the big time and is then pursued around the world by the handsome Alan Bailey whom she detests because of his arrogant nature, but it is Alan who eventually persuades her to seek out the truth of Sarah's disappearance when tragedy strikes her life and finally lay the curse to rest.

About the Author

Pam was born in Liverpool in 1952 and moved to Biddulph in Staffordshire in 1954 with her parents and older brother and lived there for eight years before moving to Shropshire in 1962 and attended Ludlow Secondry Modern school from 1963 to 1967. Immediately after leaving school her family moved again, this time to Marton in Powys where she met and married her first husband and moved to Bishops Castle in Shropshire where she lived for twenty five years and had two sons. In the mid 1980's Pam wrote a shortened version of The Seventh Rose after getting the inspiration from a cheap paperback that she bought from a jumble sale but after failing to get it published, she put it to one side and forgot about it. After her divorce in 1995 she moved back into Powys and lived near Welshpool for two years before meeting her second husband Andy and moved to Four Crosses, a small village on the Shropshire Welsh border where she has lived for the last nine years and it wasn't till Andy had a stroke in 2004 and she had to give up her working life to care for him, which had been spent mostly if factories and finally their joint mobility business that she dug out the 'Rose' again and almost totally rewrote it between her hobbies of writing poetry, reading romantic novels and autobiographies, tending her large garden or traveling round the UK or Europe in their motorhome when Andy is well enough. Pam says, 'If it wasn't for Andy giving me a back handed push the Rose would never have got into print, but it has and has given me many sleepless nights along the way, but I hope that the reader will think that the final arduous three years have been worth it'.