Family Ties

Wendy Robertson's sparkling new saga weaves an intriguing web of different generations, which spans half a century. In 1991, Bronwen Carmichael is a student at Durham University. Researching aspects of World War 2, she comes across her mother Rosa's journal, written in 1954 when Rosa was thirteen and England was recovering from the war. And, as Bronwen discovers, it was a dark time in Rosa's childhood too. At the heart of the diary is a deep family secret which now, fifty years later, could severely disturb the self-contained Carmichael women. This secret has tied the family - matriarch Kate, writer Rosa, academic Bronwen, and daughter Lily - with invisible cords which now threaten to break and change the family forever!

Wendy Robertson grew up in the North of England, one of four children whose widowed mother, an ex-nurse, worked in a factory. Wendy has worked as a teacher and lecturer, gaining a Master's whilst also writing short stories, articles, a column in the Northern Echo and novels for young adults. She was recently Writer in Residence at Long Newton Prison.