Shawnie

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Shawnie is the story of the Brewer family Ma Lisa, brother Jason and daughter Shawnie, plus Lisa s so-called lover Steve. Over the course of an intense summer, they each tell their own off-kilter version of events. Shawnie, just 13, dreams of a normal life: a lock on the bathroom door, clean clothes for school and no wild parties with her Ma as the star turn. A diamond of a girl , she tries to keep the family in order. But prostitution, drink and violence are eating away at them all, leading towards a horror that s almost too much to bear.

Author Bio

ED TREWAVAS, born and raised in Bristol, has been a van driver, office mule and sports journalist. But for the past 13 years he.s worked in a social work capacity in the south of the city. He says of his debut novel: .In writing Shawnie I was trying to make sense of the daily nightmares I was witness to.. Ed has two teenage daughters and a doomed love for Bristol Rovers.