Drawing on her Northern English background, this author enriches her bestselling novels. Her stories come alive with down-to-earth characters, lending them vivid authenticity, and are written with both humor and poignancy. Despite physical challenges, she writes steadily, sharing her narrative voice with readers.
They lived worlds apart. Jenny was the girl from the cat-meat shop, born into squalor and defeat. Paul Tunstall was a soldier and a gentleman, arrogant and charming, with his silver-light eyes and boyish smile. And yet from the moment they met there was a spark between them - and their separate lives of pain and loneliness seemed to beckon to each other.
'The Pain of Cancer' should be an essential read for all doctors and nurses in frontline medicine who will day to day be faced with patients having complex pain problems related to cancer. Armed with the concepts and theory of pain management, embellished by real life practical examples contained within this book they will have increased confidence to provide effective pain management. Most importantly patients facing the despair of pain associated with cancer will have access to effective pain control.
A sequel to "A Better World Than This", which won the Romantic Novelists' Award. It is 1947. The war is over, but life is still very harsh. Following the death of her husband Joshua, the indomitable Daisy Penny resolves to sell her boarding-house in Blackpool and start a new life in the country.