Arms Around Frank Richardson

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The impact of traumatic childhood experience reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father, Alice, physically disabled and frustrated, Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them. Until by chance they all come together in adulthood, the repercussions are explosive.

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I was very impressed with Ask Me to Dance, perfectly structured and so moving Anne Cater. Sylvia Colley writers so movingly Piers Plowright, BBC R4. A touching and beautiful novel Love Reading

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Sylvia Colley lives in Pinner, North London and spent many years as Head of English at the Purcell School. She has published a book of poetry, Its Not What I Wanted Though and two novels, Lights on Dark Water and Ask Me to Dance. Her poetry and a documentary, The Tale of Three Daughters, about her life and the loss of two of her children, have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.