Monday Monday

Two Mondays, thirty-five years apart.

Vonnie's story starts one Monday in February, when, aged 10, her world changes in ways that will burden her for decades to come.

At the time we meet her, all she knows is that her father has been stabbed and her mother has disappeared.

Later she finds out the truth but overarching all is her struggle with the malignant message seared into her heart: 'If my own mother couldn't love me, who can?'

This self-fulfilling prophecy brings crisis to Vonnie again and again as she learns that family traits can cycle from one generation to the next with relentless ease... and that moving on from them is no simple task.

Frances J MacGregor

Author of Century of Abandonment and Hope series

Growing up in a small mill town in Northern England, Frances J MacGregor always had a keen sense of the needs of children.

After a forty-year career as a Social Worker specialising in helping hurt, brutalised and damaged children, Frances is able to translate that experience into the written word with authority.

Monday Monday sits between Rosamund Pilcher's The Shell Seekers and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, and tells the story of a Northern girl who becomes deeply traumatised by the unexplained disappearance of her mother. The reverberations make her vulnerable in ways she cannot predict, understand or control.

This family saga is told over three decades and offers a deep exploration of one person's inner and outer journey towards self-belief.

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