Maria is an ambitious young graduate about to embark on a journey round the world with friends. Her life is a million miles from that of her early childhood in Manchester. A life she had escaped from when her mother was murdered, and she never imagined she would return. When a letter informing her that she has inherited a property arrives it changes all her plans. Maria wants to sell as soon as she can but then she meets charming, mysterious Joel. He has other ideas and when Maria starts delving into her lover's secrets things start to turn nasty.
Mandasue was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Cresecents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.
Title: Charmer
Author: Mandasue Heller
ISBN: 9780340896945
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 2005-10-24
Number of Pages: 400
Weight: 0.5218 kg
'Cracking page-turner...a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins.' Manchester Evening News on FORGET ME NOT. 'Gripping...powerful writing.' Scotland on Sunday on FORGET ME NOT. 'Alarming and beguiling...curiously exhilarating.' Scotsman on THE FRONT. 'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this great novel.' Martina Cole on FORGET ME NOT