Home Bird

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1979. Jackie Chadwick is 17 and living in a supported bedsit. Shes still close to her foster parents and friends with (aka unofficial minder for) Amanda, their irresponsible daughter, but shes enjoying her independence until a fire leaves her temporarily homeless.

Jackies dad, widower and recovering alcoholic Dave, has just been released from prison and sees this as his chance to make amends. He offers her his spare room but can their relationship survive him going back on the booze, his gin loving lady friend and her errant son

As things go from bad to worse, Jackie has to decide how many chances you give someone who keeps letting you down.

Bittersweet and funny, Home Bird draws on Fran Hills own experiences as a teenager in foster care.

Author Bio

Fran Hill is a self-employed English teacher and writer; this is her second full-length work of fiction. Frans first novel, Cuckoo in the Nest, is based on Frans own experience of being fostered; the novel has been shortlisted for the SoA Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was a Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022.