ManchesterтАЩs Manor Estate is the kind of place people want to live тАУ smart houses, neighbours who look out for you. But what if you donтАЩt want to be seen?
Behind the tidy front gardens and glossy painted doors it seems everyoneтАЩs got something to hide. Love, hate, addiction, jealousy тАУ on a street where everyoneтАЩs watching, you canтАЩt keep a secret forever.
For these families, itтАЩs time to find out what is really happening on home territory. SomeoneтАЩs selling their soul, someoneтАЩs selling their body, and someoneтАЩs going to pay...
Karen Woods started her career as a novelist after an adult literacy course aged 39. Since then sheтАЩs written more than 25 novels about her native Manchester, writing with true grit about the dark side of the city and drawing on her own life story. She works in a school for excluded pupils and campaigns to spread the transformative power of reading and writing in under-served communities.