In My House

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You don’t always know when someone is lying, but you can know with certainty, she is telling the truth. Nancy Jansen is an intriguing, complicated character. At times she is difficult to like, she's often difficult to understand, but she's the pivot of this story. Nancy's family revolve around her, her colleagues revolve around her, as do her clients. She has an incredible draw, she's able to understand and to try to heal, yet it is her own life that gradually begins to uncurl - slowly, but surely, Nancy's grip on life gets looser and looser. In 1956 he married the actor and model Shirley Lawrence. She died in 2016. He is survived by their two daughters, Leigh and Karen. The type of novel you want to read in a single sitting, In My House is an intelligent debut from a writer I have little doubt we’ll hear much more from in the future." - Lucy Pearson, The Unlikely Bookworm

Anyone and I mean anyone, who has read Trance formation of America will see beyond any doubt, she is telling the truth. Thereafter, apart from joining Donald in the 1980 wartime drama The Sea Wolves, his career was consumed by television roles. They included Bob Berris, Leslie Crowther’s darts partner, in the last two series (1972-73) of the sitcom My Good Woman, and Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary, Bernard Ingham, in Thatcher: The Final Days (1991). So after the farce that was our presidential election, my besty & I were discussing the face of true evil. After offering to SHOW her the face of true evil, I ran across this little gem. Overall, I enjoyed this read and thought the writing was great but I wasn’t blown away by the story itself. I did however find that there were some aspects of the novel where I started to lose interest. I personally found the drama with her brother David a little annoying; I wasn’t really interested in his character or why he acted the way he did. The story is also quite slow moving in that not a huge amount ‘happens’, and that is never necessarily a negative thing in a book for me, but I did find myself feeling less engaged in the middle section of the book. However, as the book reaches its conclusion and wraps up, I found myself engrossed again and race through the ending.

Anyone who listens to Mark or Cathy speak about the abuse knows in their gut they are telling the truth. Alex Hourston uses words so sparingly, there is no padding, no flowery description. Each startling sentence is immaculately placed. Her observations on life, and people are skilfully drawn, unpredictable, unsettling and so very powerful.

Nancy, a therapist, works with her clients to help them uncover their needs and wants, and live their best possible lives. But what if doing so means hurting someone else? Houses and homes trigger a search of the Finders Washington D.C. headquarters on February 5, 1987 . Special agents for the

2022

Following a degree in creative arts, Rebecca Whitney worked in the music industry before moving into TV and film production on music videos, commercials and documentaries. She later completed the Creative Writing Certificate at Sussex University.

Wonderfully drawn characters and a compelling story, all wrapped up in beautiful prose." - Rebecca Whitney, author of The Liar’s Chair Are you people retarded or what? Alex Houston, who I know personally, is the nicest,sincerest man that you would ever want to meet. He is a Christian who loves the Lord. Yes, he used to dabble in hypnosis, but gave that up long ago when he realized that is not of the Lord. THE LIAR’S CHAIR was published by Mantle in 2015 and was chosen for the Loose Women book club. Her second psychological thriller, THE HIDDEN GIRLS, was released in 2020 and was longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award. She is currently working on a third novel.

Why does Nancy cheat? What are the pushes and pulls? Is it about the two men in her life – Stef and Adam – whom she cannot choose between, or a more essential question about Nancy herself and the way she wants to live? Sibling rivalry