Dear Neighbour: A moving, inspirational novel about community, family
'A love letter to the power of community' Eleanor Ray, author of Everything is Beautiful
____________Alice is working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her job alongside her duties as a single Mum. Her neighbours keep to themselves and she longs for a friend to rely on.Bill has lived on Leodis Street for eighty years. It's where he eventually cared for his wife in her final days. Since Sally's death, Bill's home is a place of solitude, his talisman against an unrecognisable world.When the residents of Leodis Street are threatened with eviction, Alice decides to make a stand. As she reaches out to her neighbours and learns about their lives, she is surprised to discover that she might already live next door to the friends she has been yearning for. Perhaps together they can build a community to be proud of and discover the true meaning of home . . .An uplifting novel about friendship and belonging that fans of Sara Nisha Adams, Libby Page and Clare Pooley will fall in love with.____________What readers say about Dear Neighbour'A heartwarming and beautifully written book that made me cry in public''An excellent book club book''Funny at times, heartbreaking at others''The characters will stay with you long after you finish it'Jane Claire Bradley is a an award-winning author and educator. Her first, unpublished, novel received the Northern Debut of the Year Award from New Writing North. She has been featured as a contributing author in The Modern Craft (2022), So Long As You Write: Women on Writing (2022), and Test Signal (2021), a ground-breaking anthology of contemporary Northern writing. Dear Neighbour is her debut adult novel. Jane is based in Manchester.
Author: Jane Claire Bradley
Format: Paperback, 304 pages, 124mm x 196mm, 240 g
Published: 2024, Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
'A love letter to the power of community' Eleanor Ray, author of Everything is Beautiful
____________Alice is working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her job alongside her duties as a single Mum. Her neighbours keep to themselves and she longs for a friend to rely on.Bill has lived on Leodis Street for eighty years. It's where he eventually cared for his wife in her final days. Since Sally's death, Bill's home is a place of solitude, his talisman against an unrecognisable world.When the residents of Leodis Street are threatened with eviction, Alice decides to make a stand. As she reaches out to her neighbours and learns about their lives, she is surprised to discover that she might already live next door to the friends she has been yearning for. Perhaps together they can build a community to be proud of and discover the true meaning of home . . .An uplifting novel about friendship and belonging that fans of Sara Nisha Adams, Libby Page and Clare Pooley will fall in love with.____________What readers say about Dear Neighbour'A heartwarming and beautifully written book that made me cry in public''An excellent book club book''Funny at times, heartbreaking at others''The characters will stay with you long after you finish it'Jane Claire Bradley is a an award-winning author and educator. Her first, unpublished, novel received the Northern Debut of the Year Award from New Writing North. She has been featured as a contributing author in The Modern Craft (2022), So Long As You Write: Women on Writing (2022), and Test Signal (2021), a ground-breaking anthology of contemporary Northern writing. Dear Neighbour is her debut adult novel. Jane is based in Manchester.