Guest author – Rosy Thornton

April 23, 2012

I was lucky enough to be invited to a book launch in Cambridge last week for the launch of Rosy Thornton‘s latest novel, Ninepins. I have to say it was one of the best attended launches I’ve ever been to and I’m glad I got my signed copy first as Heffers sold out. There was nice wine too and mini pork pies – which I was also first in the queue for. 🙂

Rosy and I ‘met’ in 2004 on the BBC Drama messageboard as fans of North & South and we both started writing fiction at the same time and both got our first deals – with the same publisher – within two weeks.

Her ifth novel, ‘Ninepins’, is published by Sandstone Press.

NINEPINS is an isolated former tollhouse in the Cambridgeshire fens. There live single mother Laura and her twelve-year-old daughter, Beth, in the carefully controlled cocoon that Laura has built around them. But Beth is brittly asthmatic, lonely at school and increasingly distant from her mother. And into their lives like a brisk fen breeze comes Willow, a seventeen-year-old care leaver with a mysterious past, together with her social worker, Vince. Laura must decide: what does she want of Vince, and he of her? Is Willow dangerous or vulnerable, or maybe a little of both? And are all Laura’s painstakingly constructed certainties about to come tumbling down like ninepins?

The novel is available as a paperback and will shortly be out also in e-book format.

http://www.sandstonepress.com/title/ninepins/

Comments

1. On April 23rd, 2012 at 10:14 am
   Rosy Thornton Says:
   

   Thank you so much for this, Phillipa – you’re very kind! And it was lovely to have you there at my launch – thank you for coming along and supporting me.

   xx

2. On April 23rd, 2012 at 10:26 am
   Phillipa Says:
   

   Pleasure – thanks for the launch invite and for my signed book. 🙂