Living on a Prayer (3)

Author/Guide: Sheila Quigley

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2000s: It’s Christmas but there is no festive cheer on the Seahills Estate in Houghton le Spring

ISBN: 978-1844138463
Genre: Crime

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What you need to know before your trail

It’s a week before Christmas when Debbie Stansfield’s life falls apart. Her cheeky and fun loving son Richard has been found hanging from a tree at the Seven Sisters. The police think it’s a simple case of suicide but Debbie just won’t accept it. Richard just won’t do this and so she is determined to find out just what happened. His friends know something but they seem too reluctant or afraid to tell

Debbie soon realises that someone seems determined to stalk and create fear amongst the young people of Houghton le Spring.

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Houghton le Spring

Welcome to the Seahills estate in Houghton le Spring. The residents are a close-knit community and this estate is like taking a bite out of the working class of the North East which Quigley paints so well. The estate is fictional and once you spend time there, fascinating though it is, you will be glad.

There are relationships, poisonous and unusual, smuggling of alcohol and cigarettes from over the water, murder and mystery all wrapped into one. The booze cruise as they used to be called is one of the comedic highlights as it reminds of days gone by where people used to cross the channel for their fix.

The book also showcases well the Geordie accents and the unique vernacular of both Sunderland and Houghton le Spring. Now then pet, enjoy this novel and indulge yourself in Northern Grit.

Seven Sisters

There is an area just outside on the outskirts of Houghton le Spring known as Copt Hill and the Seven Sisters and this is where the suicide is thought to have taken place.