I've just finished a major edit on my YA novel Coalface - a big challenge, but one that's made the story stronger and shorter at the same time. So it's time to look at new stories - and old ones...
I found this recreation of a bedsit in Southwell Workhouse. In the seventies, it became a refuge for people waiting for a council house.
The kitchenette they've set up got me thinking about the scruffy flat above the costumiers where Hidden Daughter's anti-heroine Penny repairs clothes, tries to do right by her Catherine with soup and fish fingers, and occasionally time-travels.
If you think this is scruffy for the seventies (it was, deliberately so), there's no surprises for guessing what turbulent teenager Cate thinks of coming home to something like this in 1987...
Lots of thoughts, lots of ideas... and a new challenge. Time to get stuck in again.
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