A collection of eight tales of the macabre and the unexpected.
THE FLOATER and THE SMILE have a hint of the supernatural.

Something happened in Gabriella Stevens’ earlier life that caused her to distrust men – men, that is, of a certain type. At 24 she has never had a serious relationship and is still a virgin.
Office colleague Rod Nicholson personifies

People. Young, old, adults and children. Kind, cruel, loving and malevolent. All of them are recognizable in our individual worlds, and in this new collection of short stories Joy Wodhams brings them to life.
In the title story, THE GIRL

t’s not easy sharing your bedroom and your bed with a full-grown and very hungry African lion, and when Buster goes on the rampage through the streets of Bristol Danny is horrified.

When Fred can take time off from growing vegetables for the mainland shops he delights in building extensions to the family’s little wooden house. Alice (who has a Grade 6 certificate) delights in her piano, is a splendid cook and

How Charlie, with the help of a sexy lawyer, succeeds against a background of envy, hostility and eventually a tragedy is the theme of this novel.
This warm, feel-good, romantic story is set in Liverpool, beloved birth city of its