Kit De Waal

When nine year old Leon and his baby brother Jake are fostered, he is too innocent to entirely understand what has happened. But determined to do what he can to make things right, he stubbornly struggles his way through a system much larger than he can tackle on his own.

When Timothy Flowers walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite bus, he meets Charlie. Charlie is a builder who is desperate for Timothy's help because Timothy is very tall, six feet six inches. But when Timothy and Charlie have to collect money from a local thug, things don't exactly go according to plan... Quick Reads

Mona is a young Irish girl in the big city, with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boardinghouse. On her first night out in 1970s Birmingham, she meets William, a charming Irish boy. They embark upon a passionate affair, a whirlwind marriage - before a sudden tragedy tears them apart. Decades later, Mona pieces together the memories of the years that separate them. But can she ever learn to love again?