Honeydale & Mrs Shaw

By: May Oxborough

We meet Susan Standish on her first day at her new job, Manager of Honeydale care
home. She is well qualified but has never been responsible for a setting with forty vulnerable
residents and twenty staff before. Her previous position was a home manager but with only
six residents. Dan Everett is a young man in his 30s and now the general manager of the
home and part of the Everett family who have owned the home for generations. Dan meets
her to greet and show her round.
Now and again birdsong comes into the room, that is Susan's phone, and almost always it
is her mother wanting to talk about Susan's brother, Susan would rather not, he has been
trouble in the past and she needs to concentrate on her new life at Honeydale.
When a new resident, Julia Shaw arrives some interesting minor mysteries occur and
Susan discovers a riding school behind the home run by Ruth Curtis. Then a mystery that is
certainly not minor occurs and the police are involved.
In chapters 8 and 9 we are taken back to the 1900s and introduced to the gypsies who
visited every year to fruit pick. One year a young member of the Everett family disappears
and eventually it is presumed she is dead. Eventually a body is found.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H23J399C
• ISBN13: 9798195398880
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"