This is one of a few books that I have read this year set around the time of the difficult Miners Strikes that crippled England in the 1980's. I really enjoyed this book, it made it more interesting to me being set in the North East of England where I come from and live. Thanks Margitte for letting me know about this gem of a little book! Her co-workers and friends try and help her to see how close she has became to the story she is following but she refuses to see until it's almost too late. Her mom leaves her alone even at night, she has her boyfriends parading in all the time, filthy conditions and then to top it off the girl named Amy seems like she might not tell the truth at all times.Ĭlare has recently had a personal breakdown and the book doesn't tell you what has happened to her until almost the very end but when it does everything in the story falls into place. Clare befriends a nine year old girl that lives at Sweetmeadows and my heart broke for the girl. I'm flabbergasted at how much this book wrapped me up. Is the baby's death related to his father's recently coming off the picket line to return to work? She takes on the story of a baby's death at the local slums called Sweetmeadows.
So she begins to try and become "super-reporter".
Clare is a reporter who was passed over for a job promotion at her newspaper. It takes place in 1984 while the miner's strikes are going on in Britain. I'm so glad she brought it to my attention. I really never would have noticed this book except for Margitte's review. Originally from Tyneside, she lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed with her partner and children. Bea has also won several prizes for short stories.
Her novel for readers aged 13-plus, The Misper, was published in 2018 by The Conrad Press. Her second children's book, My Cousin Faustina, was originally written as an interactive e-book in conjunction with schools across the world. The children's novel produced as part of the PhD, The Serpent House, was shortlisted for a Times/Chicken House Award and published in 2014 by Curious Fox. She has a Creative Writing PhD from Newcastle University where she studied under the supervision of award-winning writer Jackie Kay and renowned literature expert Professor Kim Reynolds. This Little Piggy, was also published by Legend Press in 2014.īea spent many years as a newspaper reporter and latterly seventeen years as a senior broadcast journalist with the BBC in the north-east of England. Bea Davenport is the writing name of former print and broadcast journalist Barbara Henderson.Her first crime/suspense novel, In Too Deep, was a runner-up in the Luke Bitmead Bursary and published by Legend Press in 2013.
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