Monday, 27 February 2023

FROM MILK TO CREAM, an anthology by ELAINE ROCKETT

 


From Milk To Cream is now available on Kindle, for the value-for-money price of £3. I will release it as a paperback shortly, but for now the creative software involved is giving me the screaming habdabs. Here is the blurb:-

...Because growing up is so hard to do...
From Milk To Cream is a collection of short stories which depict that often traumatic- sometimes terrible- journey every young girl must make as she climbs into womanhood. It's a contradictory time- you're supposed to act like an adult but are so frequently treated like a child. How do you marry both?
Read about Ruby; the uncoordinated black sheep of her sporty family in The Bloodhead Trail. She befriends the other outcast that is her grandmother- a colourful character who's been married four times (including to a deposed prince, whose jewels her daft son thinks are buried in the garden), worked as a nightclub singer in London in the 1930s and travelled around the world.
In Poor Pudding Hannah is also close to her nan, but all is not what it seams as that woman has a very interesting way of dealing with a neighbour's unlucky white cat.
Revenge is at play in For Glory! as a little girl grows up and concocts a nasty situation for her dad's girlfriend, whereas in The Meddler Felicity seeks vengeance on everyone who wrongs her.
In Tabby House Sadie finds an abandoned home and sets about making it her sanctuary, but finds something a tad unsavoury hidden in a cupboard, whereas What's Wild is Wild is a wonderful and suspenseful murder mystery.
First interviews, first lust and first love are explored, culminating in The Hateful Ring; a brilliant story about a cursed piece of jewellery which affects three women in different time frames.
...This anthology is a tad dark, and references the real problems people have to overcome in their relationships...

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