A warm, gritty Liverpool saga laced with humour and packed with incident as the companionship of neighbours, you know the sort when folk have lived next door to each other for twenty years or more, is disrupted when one of the sons of one falls heavily for a ‘newcomer’. It’s touching stuff. Comparison: Lyn Andrews, Katie Flynn, Maureen Lee. Similar this month: Margaret Dickinson, Pip Granger.
In her latest novel, she tells the entertaining story of Hetty Watson and Ada Fenwick. Neighbours for over twenty years, there’s not a lot they haven’t seen when it comes to the goings on of their families. That is, until the girl from No. 22 turns the life of Ada’s son, Danny, upside down.
Joan Jonker was born and bred in Liverpool. She founded the charity-run organisation Victims of Violence and she lives in Southport. She has two sons and two grandsons.
