PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
I am a wife to one. Ken and I have been married for over 45 years.Mother of three.Nana to seven. Great grandmother to one.Sister to seven women. Yes, no brothers. My father said he felt like he was living in a convent at times as we ate in two long rows at the dinner table.I earned an MS in journalism and mass communications when our three children were young. My career evolved from radio announcer to public relations and instructor at Iowa State University. I have been published dozens of times as a freelance writer and have now completed three novels.
"""When weird Great-aunt Polly drags Cindy and Kitty to her crumbling lake house in the 1960s and orders them to stay out of the locked room on the first floor, the girls can't help themselves. They have to get inside it. Between embarrassing trips to the grocery store, fixing meals to satisfy their great-aunt's prodigious appetites, and trying to catch the attention of the boys next door, Cindy and Kitty snoop their way into trouble. Stay Out of That Room! is everything a mystery should be and more. Author Clare Bills keeps readers turning pages filled with renegade squirrels, glass eyes, swimsuit malfunctions, a pampered kitty cat, and summer romance. You'll laugh until you cry when Cindy and Kitty discover Aunt Polly's secret and see their eccentric, lonely relative with newfound compassion and respect. Jolene Stratton Philo, author of See Jane Run! and the rest of the West River Mystery Series"" ""I so enjoyed this book! In sharp detail (Pez dispensers! Hydrox!) Bills brings to life the bygone world in which many of us came of age. She writes with rich emotional imagination and a grinning way with similes (""earrings dangled like bait on a hook."") Cindy, her sweet-tart narrator, trembles (literally) on the brink of womanhood, trying to navigate Catholicism, cake and curious cute boys. As Cindy might say, ""Park your keester!"" and enjoy an entertaining and evocative read! Irene O'Garden-- Off-Broadway playwright, poet, author and transplanted Midwesterner"""
