Books 

The Edenists

Wealthy young Harriet moves from Derbyshire to Birmingham in 1851 to train as a jeweller. She falls in love with runaway Anne, who has always wanted to wear male clothing and feels neither a boy, nor a girl. Harriet’s love is reciprocated but Anne’s brothers manage to find out where she is and take her to a asylum for ‘treatment’. Harriet knows she has to get her out and does so but Anne has been scarred both physically and mentally. Can they find a place where they can live safely in a society that punishes any deviation from the norm?

The Liberation of Gerard Miller

Gerard, a retired school caretaker, lives on an Oxford housing estate which is plagued by a gang of unruly teenage boys. They start to haunt him, spraypainting pictures of white birds on his house and in his garden and watching him wherever he goes. His life is turned upside down when his unofficial daughter, who he met as part of a befriending scheme for overseas University students, disappears and her two children come to stay with him. One of them befriends one of the boys and the gang crumbles when its leader suddenly disappears. But then he comes back…

The Singer

Helena Luck, born on a Sussex farm, runs away to London in 1928 to go on the stage and becomes an actress. She falls in love, finds fame, and is cast in the first English film musical ever made but her search both for who she is and for her lost mother threaten to derail everything has fought for.