Impact by Rosalind Minett

Impact by Rosalind Minett

Post-war, July 1945, and Bill Wilson's evacuation is over. He must return to a dirty and damaged London, many heart-pounding miles away from the foster home he loves. His favourite uncle is back from the war, but so strange and different. Why does he avoid fellow soldiers and act weirdly? Worse, his manipulative cousin Kenneth is to share Bill's Wandsworth home. As the two boys struggle through adolescence and the severe austerity of the 1940s, Kenneth sets out to be top dog. Everything Bill has, everything he does, everything he values, Kenneth grasps. Tensions rise to a climax and the emotional explosion has a terrible fall-out. Now there is trauma and life-change for all in Bill's world. How can he resolve matters and how long must he live with the suspense of retribution?

Minett, Rosalind: - Rosalind's career as a psychologist led her to work with a wide variety of adults and children. She spent her last fourteen years of work as an expert witness. Now retired, she creates imaginary characters instead. Her understanding of how people think, learn, feel and behave drives her plots in everything she writes. She writes in different genres but each can be described as psychological fiction, the plots driven by their complex and sometimes unusual characters. Her writing is always touched with humour and often with a dark edge. Her short stories have been performed in Bath and Bristol, UK, and others included in anthologies. Rosalind lives in SW England and, outside family time, enjoys sculpture, painting and theatre.

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ISBN 13	9780992716721
ISBN 10	0992716721
Title	Impact
Author	Rosalind Minett
Series	Relative Invasion
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Uptake Publications
Year published	2016-12-01
Number of pages	358
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