SHELTER

A sparkling debut featuring an engaging cast of characters

It's 1944, and Connie runs to the forest to work as a lumberjill after her family home is blitzed and she must survive alone, hiding her pregnancy. Once there, she meets Italian P.O.W., Seppe, and Amos, who has never left the forest but is mourning his son who has. These three compelling characters weave a special bond in extraordinary and testing circumstances and create a new family for Connie, but when the baby arrives she must decide whether to stay or run - and who to leave behind.

A unique and engrossing love story, SHELTER is an entirely fresh tale of transformed lives in difficult times.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah Franklin grew up in rural Gloucestershire. She has written for The Guardian, Psychologies magazine, The Pool, the Sunday Express and the Seattle Times. Her creative non-fiction has been published in anthologies in the USA and appeared on radio affiliates there. Sarah is founder and host of popular Oxford literary night Short Stories Aloud, and a Senior Lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies. Sarah won an Arvon/Jerwood mentorship to work on her debut novel.