Full Circle: (12 West Country Tales)

You should never pick up hitch-hikers, her father had told her, but the storm was so wild, the night so dark and the hour so late, that Keri stopped at the side of the empty dual carriageway and took on board a whole load of worry, grief and trouble. The Easter break in Cornwall with her friend Gillian, that should have been so relaxing and ordinary, changed from that moment, and her quiet, rather dull and respectable life was to glow with colour and ring with music and laughter over the next few days in spite of disturbing undertones – for things were not at all what they seemed. And after all the excitement there came the reckoning, and Keri had to come to terms with a bitter lesson; always listen to your dad, because he’s often right… This is a book about relationships, about understanding, and about knowing your own strengths and recognising not just your own weaknesses but other people’s too, but much more than that, about courage.

About the Author :
Jane Hatton was a child during World War II, and grew up in the unpermissive fifties, when career options for women were largely confined to Secretary, Nurse, Teacher, Physiotherapist. She opted for the first, thinking the skills required would be useful in her preferred career as a writer, but has also worked in hotels, as a sailing instructor, in a craft workshop and as a cookery demonstrator – a remarkably unstructured career – while continuing to write whenever there was a spare moment: sometimes there were not many! She has had two children’s books published in the mainstream (a while ago now), followed by three novels in the genre of “literary fiction”, plus The One Too Awful to Mention – which we don’t mention – and has also independently published a long series about the Nankervis family and their friends and relations, all set in various areas of the West Country. Apart from writing, her interests include sailing, painting – including at one time scenery for the local pantomime – archaeology, photography and cooking. She lives in Cornwall, on her own these days, with a small black cat for company and a background of family and friends.

Review :
‘I had a sense of the plot continuing to unfold regardless of whether I was reading it or not… and I was loathe to miss a thing…’ West Briton; ‘…this is a book whose chapters are much like the sea itself, sometimes calm, sometimes angry, but always with a wave of emotion rising to the surface.’ Clevedon Mercury