Don’t Leave by Pru Heathcote on Tour – 19th – 25th August 2022

Don’t Leave by Pru Heathcote

Publication Day : 29th July 2022 by Red Dragon Books

Page Count : 297 pages

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JANE is a young woman grieving for her child, who is taken to a remote holiday cottage on the Northumberland coast.

From the moment she arrives at the cottage with her much older and over-protective husband, Peter, Jane keeps catching glimpses of a little girl and hearing a child crying.

Peter is convinced these are hallucinations, as Jane has been diagnosed with schizophrenia – a diagnosis she doesn’t agree with.

She sets out to discover who or what the child could be. A ghost? A real child? Or something else?

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About Pru Heathcote

I’ve always loved telling stories and putting them down on paper as soon as I could write. I began my working life in Hertfordshire as a local newspaper reporter – obits, weddings, Uncle George’s Kiddies’ Corner – then went on to teenage magazines (Fab and Rave) and women’s magazines.

I moved to Northumberland forty years ago and worked as an adult education tutor, teaching any subject I didn’t need a qualification for, including creative writing.

Over the years I’ve written dozens of stories for magazines, a commissioned biography, and several plays, one of which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.

It was one of my plays that formed the basis for my novel Don’t Leave, winning entry in the 2020 Lindisfarne Prize, written during the first Lockdown.

I’m married, with three grown-up children and two grandchildren.

I live in Warkworth, a village on the Northumberland coast, an area that provides most of the inspiration for my stories.

You can connect with her on Facebook

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