Introducing my new novel: What July Knew

I’ve been dying to tell you all about this for so long now, and finally the day is here.

May I introduce you to the gorgeous cover of my new novel, What July Knew?

It is not out until February 2023 but you can pre-order it via the links here.

So what’s it about?

What July Knew is a moving mystery about family secrets, grief and growing up, for readers of Joanna Cannon, Janice Hallett and Jo Browning Wroe.

July knows 18 things about her mother. But not the truth.

Summer, 1995. On her tenth birthday, July's teacher sets the class a project to find out about a relation they don't know. It's easy for July to choose her subject. She doesn't remember her mother, who died when she was small, and her father refuses to talk about her. Ever. The only memories she has of her are flashbacks from the accident that claimed her mother's life.

But then she receives the note: 'She didn't die in a car accident.'

Determined to discover what really happened, July begins to investigate, cycling around the street where her family used to live and questioning the neighbours. When she is caught snooping round a crumbling house at the end of the road, she learns that the man living there was the last person to see July's mother alive.

In his version of the story, he is a hero. In everyone else's, he is anything but...