Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where an inanimate object, for example, a chair, might be able to tell us something about every person who has sat on it, since the day it was made. What stories it could tell! Or, what about a bedsit where tenants come and go, knowing nothing about the people who might follow?
Developing these thoughts led me to this new series of novellas, The Mountfield Road Mysteries. Each story introduces us to someone who moves into the bedsit at Number 1, Mountfield Road, as a result of a major change in their life. Through the stories, the bedsit remains as a constant, but there is nothing else constant about the lives of the characters, who, for one reason or another, go on a journey that leads them to unexpected change.
And the good news is that for today only – 24 October 2024* – you can read the first book in the series for free!! Don’t hesitate! Download Storms of Change today and enjoy the chance to travel back in time to a tiny bedsit, in a certain road in Hastings, in 1960!
Read on to find out more…!
It’s 1960, the start of a new decade and one that promises radical change. Marcus Chase is keen to break free from his family home in London, moving south, to Hastings.
At London’s Old Bailey, lawyers are preparing their arguments for a trial that will shock the nation. The novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, challenges accepted notions of morality and some argue it should never be published.
Marcus is drawn into the debate when he meets Fred and Gilly Barnes, a couple whose carefree attitude to life makes him doubt everything about his life.
But when Marcus comes face to face with a crime, he is forced to look beneath the surface of his new friendship, discovering a darker side to something that appeared so bright.
Sally Hilton is certain 1961 could be her year.
She’s forever replaying her mother’s words, ‘You can be whoever and whatever you want to be’. But Sally doesn’t know who she wants to be. That’s the problem.
So, Sally embarks on unofficial research, from behind the pick and mix sweet counter at Woolworths, gathering together an imaginary encyclopaedia of human nature.
Edna Hilton also longs for change. With the last of her children gone it’s time for her to grab new opportunities. She’s been a wife, then a mother. Now what?
But when the enigmatic Harry Eagle comes on the scene, Sally begins to doubt herself, worse still she begins to doubt her mother.
Forced into retirement, having to leave his cosy cottage and move to a tiny bedsit in Mountfield Road, Hastings, William Arnold wants nothing more than to remember the past, a time when he understood the world, when he had a role to play, a purpose.
He had always believed that as humanity moved forward it learned from past mistakes, yet here, in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was about to bring the world to the verge of nuclear destruction.
Meeting sixteen-year-old Peter, William is challenged to revise his thinking completely. Peter and the rest of his generation believe in another way of forcing through change.
Can protest marches and raised voices really make a difference, succeeding where William’s generation seemed to have failed?
Don’t miss out – today – 24 October 2024* – is the perfect day to stock up your library with mysteries galore, all for free! Take a look by clicking on this link – Storms of Change – you will find the book listed under the ‘Historical Cozies’ tab.
I hope you enjoy discovering the secrets of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Happy reading!
Isabella Muir
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