Smiling Through Tears is a tale of two friends who are facing difficult situations. Reverend Alasdair Sommersby is losing his fight with cancer. Frances Campbell lives with the threat of violence.The setting of Smiling Through Tears is what drives this novel. Such a tale of domestic abuse, violence and suffering seems out of place amidst the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, tea-room gentility, the febrile atmosphere of the race course, and garden fête geniality, but that, of course, is the point.
I wrote Walking on Eggshells having enjoyed the experience of writing The Death of a Clerk in Holy Orders. It was a cathartic process as I was still suffering from the consequences of divorcing my h ........
I created St Dunstan’s Hospice so that Alasdair died in comfortable surroundings. The description is inspired by the film The Quartet starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins and Billy ........
I moved to North Yorkshire in 1989 and five years later my marriage fell apart. Actually it had been falling apart even before the move northwards. You will see why when you read the book. Friend ........
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