A Tethered Thread

From the children’s author, Neelie Wicks, a spellbinding new young adult psychological thriller set in Northumberland, England and France.

1941 – Lou Turnbull, a reluctant student at secretarial college in Newcastle, does not revel in her achievements which, as far as she is concerned, do no more than feed her mother’s pride.

Lou is looking for more. And she’s found it in the midst of World War 2 but she fears something more than the present.

Having set off on the wrong foot with Ethel Johnson, a German jew and escapee from Drancy, France, Lou cannot reconcile her resentment with the compulsion to confide in her about the August episodes… Like Christmas they come round every year but unlike Christmas they come only for her; the smell of lilies, the purple aura swirling through Grandma Napier’s high curved passageway, drifting up the winding stairs, seeping through the spindled banister and finally swirling towards the first floor flat and its tiny kitchen on the landing…

All things considered what Lou really wants is for August to be over.