Lonely Ballerina

By DG Williams

Horror in Northern England.A tale of Neglect, Abuse, and Addictions, Lonely Ballerina is set in an East Leeds suburb of predominantly back-to-backs and spans a period from the mid-1970s up until 2016. It charts a short period in the lives of two families, unrelated, but who reside in the same house, albeit forty years apart. Both families are headed by strong-willed, domineering women who are never short of acid-tongued put-downs when it comes to asserting authority over their more submissive partners. However, the strength of character in both runs only skin deep. Stella shares the house with her dull and browbeaten second husband, George, a poor replacement for her first, Trevor, the dashing love of her life, killed whilst Susan, their only child, was just a small girl. Stella lives a sad and unexciting existence, sustaining herself on alcohol, the church and the weekly sleepovers of her granddaughter. Zoe, Phil and daughter Sophia move into the same house in 2016, after Phil purchases the property at auction, without the knowledge of his partner. Zoe has immediate misgivings about the property but goes along with it for the sake of the family. Her doubts about the house take a nosedive during the discovery of a secret cellar and the contents within but her concerns fall on deaf ears as Phil dismisses them out of hand. She is forced to confront her fears alone.The story culminates as the house slowly secretes its disturbing and harrowing secret past into the already fragile headspace of the fiesty, streetwise Zoe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086B8G1PJ
• ISBN13: 9798629989639
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"