SARAH CRABTREE was lured away from the office by the desire to
become a writer. A fan of music, both pop and classical, she
wanted to write a tale about a girl who was brave enough to ditch
her safe life, grab her rucksack, and take a chance.
Sarah intends to apply herself to becoming a horror queen as
soon as she gets out of her system some niggling issues she has
with women’s fiction, a.k.a. Chick Lit. She is also considering
becoming a queen of non sequiturs.
Terror from Beyond Middle England is her first published novel.
What’s a thirtysomething, single, small-town temp to do to escape
her dreadful life and her dysfunctional family? Our heroine, Zara,
grabs a rucksack, jumps on a train going to a slightly bigger town,
and falls into the arms of an intriguing young scientist called Alan.
He could well be the solution to her problems — just so long as
Zara’s cousin Julia’s love troubles don’t get in the way.
The adventure spirit thus unleashed, Zara develops a knack for
attracting the most fascinating people, among them a coterie of
queer and transsexual activists on a crusade against genetically
modified foodstuffs. Not such an eccentric rallying point, as it
turns out when the naughty goings-on at the lab where Alan works
are uncovered. These ultimately lead to the creation of the
Doomsday Globe, a pretty little knickknack that contains deadly
bacteria in place of a snowstorm.
Up until this wonderful stage of her life, Zara has never had so
much control over so much chaos. Life has never been so sweet as
Zara and Alan fall helplessly in love. But don’t get out the sick-
buckets yet: Zara’s suicidal mother doesn’t want to miss out on the
fun, and Cousin Julia turns up on the doorstep pregnant and in
denial. And it’s all Zara’s fault. Well, actually it isn’t, but she’s just
too darned kind and competent for everybody’s good.
This is an eternal saga of human bondage made possible almost
entirely by wireless technology . . .
e-book | ISBN 9780972832168
5.25” x 8.25”
264 pp.
“
For all dithery fun to be had in this book,
there is also a poignant sense of essentially
lonely people trying to create better lives
for themselves.
— Roseanne Rabinowitz, LauraHird.com
© ENC Press 2018. Tipping sacred cows since 2003.
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