A 19th century romance novel set in Bowdon, Cheshire. Charlotte was a humble servant whose main care in life was her daughter Tooty. She only ever loved one man - her first husband, Rodney, who died tragically young. After his death she had no choice but to work long hours for the owners of the big houses of the day in Bowdon and Stockport. It was a hard life for both mother and daughter, but it gave her a perspective on history as she saw the world changing before her eyes and class barriers and prejudices beginning to dissolve. When a series of terrible crimes come to light, Charlotte begins to wonder if her new friend David is somehow mixed up in them. Fate places her in unique position to understand what has really been happening and who is responsible. A Bowdon Romance weaves the thread of local history into a fascinating portrait of life as it must have been in 19th century England.

When two 15-year-old girls find a mysterious house concealed under an ancient tree on the Devisdale in Bowdon, they discover that the cellar steps take them back in time to the London of 1665, the year of the Great Plague. It proves to be the first of many visits to the house and to the plague-ridden capital, and they soon find themselves witnesses to the Great Fire of London which followed the Plague a year later. As the girls grow older and explore further, their travels through time and their encounters with people from the 17th century give them much to think about, including the way attitudes have changed to social care, mental health, nursing practice and tenancy law.

Eckhart Tolle remarks "my favorite poem I've ever heard." Daniel Ladinsky, Poet and Translator of Rumi and Hafiz calls F.O.A., "Of the same wealth and value as anything one can hope to find in a volume of Rumi, Hafiz, St. John of the Cross, or St. Teresa of Avila. A grand range of mind and soul awaits any who ventures near F.O.A's verse. Its poems can help us defy gravity, who doesn't trade their gold for that." A practical tool in surrendering so much more deeply into the maximum potential of That which You already are... Now. Be taken so deeply into the love that you are to share it more with those surrounding. YES.

For more than two years, Rose Elders and her daughter Elizabeth were hounded, bullied and intimidated almost to the point of madness, all because certain junior public servants misused their power, while senior ones who could have stopped it failed to use theirs properly. It all started when Elizabeth complained that they were being stalked by a well-known local misfit who was clearly trying to gain power over the women in order to get his hands on their money. She was accused of libelling him. The social worker assigned to the case, for perverted reasons of her own, decided to take the stalker's side and set out to have Elizabeth certified. Thanks to the incompetence of some of those in authority, she very nearly succeeded. The author has written A Desperate Obsession, based on a true story, to show how open to abuse UK mental health legislation is.