2014 Amazon Bestseller
Eileen Wharton
THE BOOKS
SHIT HAPPENS
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Rose Starling, abused wife, is living on benefits with her three children on a sink estate in a small town in the Newcastle area, keeping one step ahead of the tallyman and dancing in the shadows of various illegal dealings. She's got problems though when bits of her ex-husband turn up in different places and the slimy DI Savage seems to be bending the evidence to link her to the death. Add the fact that she's being pressured into taking a 'job' by hard-nosed Vera Devlin from the estate and having to work in a topless bar to make ends meet and you can see she's up against it. Desperate to extricate herself from the mess she breaks into her old marital home to find the diary of her dead husband, except that his mother has taken up residence and arrives back early from bingo... Set against a backdrop of Northern council estate life, this fast paced, humorous novel exemplifies the problems caused by poverty, piles and unruly children, think Jeremy Kyle meets the Thorn Birds and you won't be far wrong!
Rainbows in Puddles
​RAINBOWS IN PUDDLES is a collection of short stories by award-winning writer, Eileen Wharton. It encompasses tragedy, murder, mystery and the grotesque. The tales range from social realism to the surreal, from urban poverty to war-torn Europe, from tales of woe to delineations of the mundane. They are startling and grim yet disturbingly satisfying. The hairs on your neck will prickle with excitement and fear. For short story lovers and anyone unable to resist the enchantments of the weird imagination, RAINBOWS IN PUDDLES offers a close to the bone experience which might give you nightmares.
It's Not Fair
​School is a place where wearing the wrong shoes, having the wrong haircut or saying the wrong thing can result in being 'laughed out of existence.' Scarlett Sparkle introduces us to unlikely hero Anthony Nolan. Anthony’s parents and grandparents seem determined to ruin his street cred forever with their bogey coloured, hand knit jumpers and insistence he wears a cycle helmet. Anthony must run the gauntlet of Middle school in a bid to survive with his ‘rep’ intact. 'It's not fair' is aimed at children from about 8 years of age.