Friday's Forgotten Books: Run For Home by Sheila Quigley
RUN FOR HOME is a thriller about a family and a community that harbour dark secrets.
Like all of Sheila Quigley's books it takes place in the Seahills Estate, a fictitious housing estate in the North-East of England.
RUN FOR HOME, Sheila Quigley's first novel, kicks off in 1985 with a slice of North Eastern Gothic as a man desperately tries to escape a female assassin known as The Head Hunter.
We then cut to 2001 and the Lumsdon family, a rough tumble crew who are watched over by sixteen-year old athlete Kelly, strong willed and short tempered and fighting to keep her family's head above water. When Kelly's younger sister is kidnapped she has to to fight all the harder.
RUN FOR HOME is fast paced and full of Northern warmth and humour and a fine example of BRIT GRIT.
It's the first Sheila Quigley book that I've read and it certainly won't be the last.
FRIDAY'S FORGOTTEN BOOKS is hosted by Patricia Abbott and links to more mislaid classics can be found HERE.
2 comments:
I have only read one of her books but enjoyed it very much. I just can't remember which one it was.
Thanks for adding another book to my TBR pile, (which just keeps getting higher and higher, alas -- I need a clone). By the way, I Googled Sheila to see what she's up to and found the following site:
http://www.theseahills.co.uk/sheila.html
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