A biography/memoir about injustice, friendship, love, loss, and imagination #scotwriterpitch2025
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(Cont'd.) These two books based on real events. Mary and Henry are my paternal grandparents. Joe (pictured here as a boy with Mary) is Mary and Henry's only son. So... if Joe fails to return to Vancouver from India in 1919, will I ever be born? 😳 Saga/Historical Fiction/autism #scotwriterpitch2025
And finally... still 1919. Joe is the only son of Mary and Henry. They are my paternal grandparents. But Joe is not my father. 📚 Anyone fancy a long, immersive, escapist read about two real families, one of them Indian/Irish and royal, the other Canadian/British - and my own? #scotwriterpitch2025
One young woman put to death, another trying to keep her alive #scotwriterpitch2025
To Kill a Mockingbird meets Private Peaceful meets Jackie Kay’s Trumpet. #scotwriterpitch2025
Two young women separated by a century but united by a quest for justice. A biography/memoir. #scotwriterpitch2025
Three First World War poets: Charles Hamilton Sorley, William Noel Hodgson, and Siegfried Sassoon, part biography part memoir. #scotwriterpitch2025
Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness meets Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. A queer love story set during World War One. #scotwriterpitch2025
Edith loved life, but they took it from her. A biography/memoir. #scotwriterpitch2025