Heartsound
A contemporary literary novel by Clare Stevens - due out 8 April 2024
Sixteen-year-old Chrissie’s first love is a girl.
But it’s the eighties, and she fears rejection from her rural community, so her relationship remains secret. When her friend vanishes, Chrissie bears her heartache alone.
Decades later, her long-lost love resurfaces, but all is not as it seems.
It takes a global pandemic and a brush with death to spark the resolution Chrissie craves.
Heartsound is a tale of unspoken truths, broken promises, almost-forgotten dreams, and hope.
Blue Tide Rising
A literary (magical realism) novel by Clare Stevens
“Somewhere in me a scream is rising, but I contain it. Just.”
Diazepam-fogged Amy isn’t the best person to investigate an unexplained death, but she’s the only one Jay can get through to.
On the run from her troubled past and controlling older (ex) lover, she winds up on a Welsh eco farm where she starts to rebuild her life, grounded by the earth and healed by the salt air.
But it isn’t just her inner self she manages to uncover. There are living ghosts at Mor Tawel, and they’re as loud as the waters crashing over the shingle on the beach.
Amy’s new life has just started, and she’s already running out of time.