Black Sheep - Karen E. Stokes
Karen is a true ‘Yorkshire lass’, as they say, born and bred in Sheffield, where she has always lived. Her love of reading was present from an early age, and in particular, limericks. During her teenage years, some favourite authors were Fay Weldon and Martin Amis. In 2012, she wrote ‘An Ordinary Life’, a biographical story written in the third person, using fictional characters. What began as a therapeutic exercise with no expectations as to where it would lead, the title was finally published in 2014. Karen’s literary journey continued on with The Healing, inspired by a passion for the paranormal and written for readers who share a particular interest in the dark side and to stoke speculative curiosity. The book was published in 2020, but unfortunately, the publisher folded last September. Completion of Karen’s third novel, Black Sheep, brought further success as the title has just been published. The story is about a little girl who battles through a fractured and abusive childhood to adolescence when she finally escapes her sordid existence to begin a new life. As an established author, Karen takes great pleasure in the literary world where the stories keep on flowing, and is busy penning her fourth novel.
GENRE: Women's fiction
Blurb:
Gem was a quiet girl from a loving family, or so it seemed, living through intolerable cruelty, existing purely for her mother’s gratification. An adverse event during her teenage years forced Gem to leave Lanebridge to London to be with her sister. Finding love and a successful career finally came, but for an underlying bitterness gnawing at her soul. Enter the presence of an unlikely saviour, watching and waiting.
