Blueskin the Cat

It begins

Publisher: Footsteps Press
ISBN: 978-1-908867-27-8

Paperback 230 pages

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Britain in the 1980s with Thatcher and her monetarism in full flight mesmerising vast areas of the country, a poorly educated women with 5 children from 5 different men lives in a sprawling council estate.

Christine was raped at fifteen and spends her life looking for a man to love her. Gareth is released from prison and Mary thinks she can convert him to the Lord. Murial is pimped by the lesbian Maggie. Norman hides being gay by marrying, Susan arms herself with a penknife, Christmases come and go.

Any dreams she had gone with most of her teeth she spends her days trying to be a mother and endlessly playing, 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World'.

A social study filled with warmth less than pity.