The Squatters (Paperback)

This is a story set in the huge slum clearance scheme in Nottingham (The Meadows) in the 1970s. Three very unlikely squatters: John Brown, a banker and Freddy Baldwin, a renowned musician, who both had wife troubles, although very different from each other. Then the most remarkable of them all: Annie, a child who had cared for her father, during his terminal illness (cancer) and who was then considered too young to be living alone in her own home. Afraid to be evicted, possibly into care, she appealed to her own sister, who had then turned her out, to face an unforgiving world, where rape and motherhood awaited. It is a story of deceit, unrequited love and, then, as the story evolves, just maybe a brighter future for them all.