My Wicked Aunt Leonora
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About the Book
My Wicked Aunt Leonora is the author’s third novel. She hopes that honesty and humour will appeal to the reader rather than sentiment and nostalgia.
The main character, Kathryn Shaw, has had an unusual and eventful twenty five years of life. She is feisty, wired and generous to a fault. After spending most of her childhood in a Care Home, she convinces herself that romance is out of the question and steels herself against disappointment.
Unable to sleep from a reoccurring nightmare of drowning, she takes on night time work in a bistro just off the King’s Road in
At the age of fifteen, after breaking into the Supervisor’s office files at the Care Home, she discovers evidence of relatives in the form of hippie Godparents living in Newquay. They subsequently take her away to a better life where she finds fresh air and freedom to surf with Aussie Luke the Lifeguard.
Kathryn’s struggle to find out her true identity is further complicated on her twenty fifth birthday by the appearance of a weird and beautiful, previously unknown aunt, who believes herself to be a “wampire” from
About the Author
The author has two other published novels: The Seven Paperweights and Wrong Time: Right Face. She graduated from