Author Description

In this eclectic collection of short stories and flash fiction which finds its cues in real life there's comedy, tragedy, laughter and love. Set in locations as diverse as a Pacific island paradise, the mountains of rural New York and the Yorkshire Moors, these are stories of romance, loss, betrayal, murder, redemption and ultimate truth. Prepare to meet a cast of sometimes oddball and occasionally wacky characters caught up in the business of living in this debut collection by award winning author Sallie Tams As soon as he sees her, a man on a blind date knows she's the one; an aspiring chef makes a drastic change to attract the attention of her boss; a kleptomanic with a fetish for body parts wrestles with a dilemma; a boy discovers the hard way if he has what it takes to be a man and a little girl wonders about the meaning of a word; a man seeks a way to fix time with a broken clock and a bored ghost considers a career change. A vicar's wife gives total commitment to a decisive course of action and a disabled veteran gets advice from an unlikely source. There's something strange going on at the allotments and does Mrs Berish know something about it? A boy and his canine companion get caught up in something horrific and a woman escapes to the mountains when tragedy strikes but discovers more there than she bargained for.