Publications
We are a group of published and emerging new writing talent. Here are some of our publications.
Meanwhile Street by Miranda Glover Bantam Press, Sept 2009
It's early morning and Meanwhile Street thinks it's waking to a regular Wednesday in May. Soon a disconcerting sound alerts Maggie and Gordon that something's not right. Throughout the day neighbours bear witness to a series of apparently unrelated incidents that, by midnight, leave a solitary fifteen-year-old running for his life and a Polish girl preparing to flee London for good. It is Thursday before anyone knows that events have culminated in a single, heart-wrenching tragedy. In the aftermath, kids and adults from all backgrounds are forced across their thresholds to confront one another and the community they share. Love and trust, courage and cowardice, hope and despair, are all challenged, with some extraordinary and surprising consequences.
Lost and Found by Lucy Cavendish, Penguin 2009
Samantha Smythe has a busy summer ahead of her with her three active young sons. Her au pair is more interested in the contents of the fridge than in the children, her husband is off drinking champagne for breakfast in London, and the famous footballer who has moved into the village seems to think Samantha is the answer to his problems. Then, out of the blue, Samantha’s childhood friend Naomi turns up on the doorstep with her daughter in tow. It’s been years since Samantha and Naomi have seen each other and it’s not long before they fall back into their old ways. Samantha would do anything for Naomi but when she’s left to look after her little girl as well has her own chaotic family, she has to ask herself what she is prepared to do to save a friendship. Everyone has a long lost friend but what happens when the past comes back and turns your life upside down? Can things ever go back to the way they were?
'An acutely observed comic portrait of modern motherhood.' Metro
Soulmates by Miranda Glover, Bantam Press, 2007
Emi and Polly Leto are identical twins with a shared life until Emi vanishes and Polly is left searching. Now one becomes two, and twindom becomes duplicity as myth and memory merge, forcing Emi and Polly to confront what they thought they knew about themselves, one another and the parents who made them. Behind the twins there is the creator of their souls, a woman called Sarah, a mother without whom there would be no story to be told. From the edgy heart of London to a remote idyll on the Stockholm archipelago, this is a journey into the power of love, the damage wreaked by emotional depression and the agony of sexual deceit. It is a story of the genetic impact of nature wrestling with the heady demands of nurture, of patterns of behaviour and the cruel turns of fate.
"A dark and fascinating read," Easy Living
Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal, Lucy Cavendish, Penguin
Let me introduce you to the Smythe household...There's me, Samantha, my husband John the Second, and our two children Bennie and Jamie. And then there's my eldest son Edward from my first marriage. I love my family to bits but even I stagger a bit when I see the mess they create. Bennie, who is two, can't seem to use a potty. Jamie, only eight months, eats nothing but butternut squash and Edward spends most of his time watching Scooby Doo and drawing pictures on his willy. Every now and then I lose my cool and start shouting like a mad woman and John has to take me upstairs and calm me down. But, despite my worry that a non-nuclear family may never be a 'real' family, everything was fine until last summer when it got a whole lot more complicated.My ex-husband John the First turned up at our house for the first time in three years. My sister's marriage broke up and my best friend Dougie did nothing but drink wine and moan about this life. Edward, of course, thought it was marvellous that he had two dads living with him. I on-the-other-hand, began to feel I was slowly disappearing out of sight. Suddenly our chaotic but loving home was teetering on the verge of collapse.
'What Helen Fielding was to singletons, so Lucy Cavendish is to equally wine-sozzled, stained and chaotic mothers ... Even those, like me, who have never given birth will cry with laughter.' Liz Jones
'Not a thrusting feminist work, but a lighting amusing chick-lit number about the trials of mummyhood.' Tatler
Masterpiece by Miranda Glover, Bantam Press, 2005
Art, fashion, fame and sex - artist Esther Glass has it all. That is, until a ghost from her past threatens to destroy her perfect life. Trying to cover her tracks, Esther goes for ultimate sensation, selling herself as a living work of art. She takes the international art scene by storm, performing as the female sitters inside seven great paintings. But underneath the surface the cracks start to show as Esther is forced to reconcile a very private history with a very public life. Fast-paced, smart and scintillating, "Masterpiece" gives the reader a rare glimpse into a closed world.
'A clever caper' You Magazine, 10 July 2005
'Gorgeous...Glover is an art-world insider, and she looks behind the glitter with great assurance' The Times, 16 July 2005.
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'This novel is the ultimate comment on our obsession with fame, celebrity and surface beauty... A superbly thought-provoking read' GLAMOUR magazine, Sept 2005.
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"A book of dazzling ideas..."Time Out
'Sumptuous, sensuous and thought-provoking' Margaret Drabble