Fractious

About the Book

London in the 1980’s drugs and prostitution are rife and to survive you have to be one hard hearted bastard with eye’s in the back of your head. That’s Linda Gerraty and Paulie Santini to a tee: but Linda has one weakness her Son Luke. Linda gave Luke up for adoption when she was a crack addicted street whore but now Luke’s all grown up and Linda wants him back. Over the years Linda’s evolved into a revered and despised madam with a main stake in the drugs trade, clubs all over town and a hard core base of enforcers but someone has a score to settle with Linda that has lasted almost twenty years and that someone is Jez Watson. Shirley Watson and Linda Gerraty had been friends and worked the streets together for years and at one time Jez had thought Linda was family but all that changed when Jez hit adolescence and Linda took him as her lover. Spite, greed and jealousy crept in to the Women’s relationship and Shirley would suffer the consequences for almost twenty years. Jez burnt with desire to exact revenge on the Woman he has learnt to hate and didn’t care how he got it but tragedy strikes and Jez will regret crossing Linda for the rest of his days on Earth.

About the Author

Always being an avid reader I studied English Literature and Language to A‰*ªlevel standard at college then embarked on constructive and creative writing courses as a hobby. I have had many short stories anecdotes and puzzles published across a range of media but always wanted to write a novel. This first novel forms the basis of a trilogy the second being almost complete and the third plotted. I lived in and around London for most of my life and worked as a Cardiac Technician for many years in a busy District General but moved to West Sussex with my Husband and dogs two years ago. Now working part time I have the opportunity to indulge my passion for writing and develop the career I have always wanted.