Susan Burton
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"Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never...
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Moving to York should have been her happily ever after. Instead, Samantha Grayson finds both her marriage and sanity being jeopardised by the past. The Bronze Age woman she discovered last year, somehow communicates with her. Named Moira by her husband, archaeologist Jack Shepherd, this woman even claims to be her ancestor. Is it madness or is it magic? Moira is like a splinter in her mind, constantly itching. On the final leg of her honeymoon, Samantha...
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Strange things are happening in Muriel Grayson's safe, plodding routine of eat-sleep-work-repeat. Not just strange. Unusual. Transforming. She's hearing the clarion call of adventure. Leaving her job and old name behind, she revisits a dream of becoming an archaeologist, byapplying to attend a summer dig in coastal Yorkshire. Led by the British poster boy forarchaeology, Jack Shepherd, the dig is trying to locate a bronze age burial site. The newlynamed...
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Samantha Shepherd is once again setting out on a quest: to prove that she lived her Bronze Age ancestor's life, which would also validate her theories about her ancestor's origins. And she is leaving her husband, Jack Shepherd, behind. Literally. With very little to go on, other than instinct and Moira's oblique references, Samantha looks for the Star Circle, an ancient stone temple, and the living descendants of Moira's son, Niall Torren. Following...
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Anthology/journal of creative writing from Wales and beyond on the theme of sea change, including essays, biography, memoir, literary essays, history, natural history, book extracts, fiction, writing of place, nature and poetry, plus original artwork, illustration and photography.
* Excerpts from the three winning and three highly commended entries from the 2020 New Welsh Writing Awards. Comprises the winner, UEA graduate Susan Karen Burton from...