Our audio series "The Authors Read. We Listen." was hatched in a NYC club during BEA back in 2012. It's a fun little series, where authors record themselves reading an excerpt from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard.
Today, Alex Morrall joins us. Alex Morrall lived in south-east
London where her voluntary work inspired ‘Helen and the Grandbees.’ She is also
a published food reviewer and poet and author of ‘Adrift: The Storyteller and
Mosaicist. She writes about the complexities of society with warmth,
empathy and a touch of humour, and enjoys working using her creative and
mathematical background. She has a maths degree but paints beautiful city
scenes and landscapes in her spare time.
Listen to Alex read an excerpt from Helen and the Grandbees by clicking on the soundcloud link below.
Twenty years ago, Helen was forced
to give up her baby daughter.
Now there’s a knock at the door —
and Lily is standing there.
For two decades Helen has built a
life around silence, carefully avoiding the past she left behind. But Lily’s
arrival shatters the fragile calm Helen has constructed. As mother and daughter
attempt to reconnect, long-buried secrets begin to surface, and the emotional
cost of the choices made years before becomes impossible to ignore.
Set in southeast London, Helen
and the Grandbees is a moving literary novel
about motherhood, loss, and the complicated ways people try to protect
themselves from pain — even when it means risking the connections they most
long for.
“Uplifting and engaging.” — Daily
Mail
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