Kate Rigby

• Mar-1990
• / General Fiction
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"Fall Of The Flamingo Circus is the story of a strong and independent girl's childhood and adolescence, her desperate battle to make something of the fearful hand dealt to her. Through her eyes we see the realities of poverty in England â€" hunger an...

• Feb-1991
• / Psychological Suspense
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Set in the nineteen-seventies, Did You Whisper Back? begins with Amanda Court's longing to be reunited with her estranged twin sister Jo. Following a false lead, Amanda leaves her Merseyside home and family and goes to Devon to work as a chambermai...

• Feb-2007
• / Literary
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Fate dealt to Daryl from the bottom of the deck. During pregnancy, his mother took a common prescription drug that doomed him to a life without arms. But streetwise Daryl's a fighter - self-styled Thalidomide Kid superhero at heart - and he's sworn t...

• Feb-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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After losing his brother, Kit Ramsay goes to stay with his Aunt Lil in 1960s Liverpool where he makes friends with local tough boy Terry Dacosta and his notorious family. Memories of those days resurface thirty years later when Kit returns to Liverpo...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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This bittersweet collection reflects themes for our time, be it the angst of reaching fifty and a life not quite fully realized or the sexual assuredness of the younger generation in ‘A Generation Thing’. Sexual experimentation is explored in â€...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Told from both daughter and father's perspectives, Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of-age, riches-to-rags tale of loss, resilience, and self-discovery. It is also about the passage of childhood into puberty....

• Nov-2011
• / Thriller
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Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper, is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the li...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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The title is taken from a schoolgirl levitation ritual, practised by the mother of narrator Hannah. As a result of Meningitis at the age of six, Hannah nearly dies leading her parents to become obsessively over-protective. Her parents gradually dis...

• Jul-2014
• / Literary
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Maxine lives in Number 7, the peeling Jewish house, where she has to stand on cushions to change light bulbs because she doesn't know anyone well enough to ask for the use of their stepladder.  She is also trapped in an unsatisfactory relationsh...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary
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An edgy, contemporary tale about death and suicide and its effects on two families. Death is a fact of life for the principle characters and especially for Marina Reed who wishes to join her loved ones at ‘the dead club’, a place she and her sixt...

• Jun-2015
• / Literary
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A hard-hitting novel based on my experience of working in the field of addictions It's the late 1980s and mother of four, Cheryl West, lands herself a job at a drugs project in London. But memories of her old life are never far away, especially when ...

• Aug-2015
• / Literary
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Fruit Woman is narrated by Helen Scutt, a quirky and naïve twenty-seven-year-old. The image of the Fruit Woman has appeared to Helen at important times in her life, particularly in relation to her own sexual and spiritual awakening. But only now, wh...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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An edgy, bittersweet collection reflecting themes for our time. She Looks Pale is a noveletta told by a young girl confined to the house by her over-protective parents. In some stories, patterns of behaviour across generations or within a lifetime ar...

• / Literary
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The Colour Of Wednesday takes its name from the last sentence of Down The Tubes and continues Michael's story two decades on from that novel. A family death propels him back into chaos and self-destruction. There are more relationship and family stra...