Price  £4.99
Format  ebook
Published  1 September 2014
Length  256 pages
ISBN  9781905559763 (ebook)

Angel Cake
Helen Harris                                      

‘My old lady turned out to be an absolute fright. Serves me right, I suppose. She wears bold theatrical make-up on a shrivelled face; bright scarlet lipstick which bleeds into the deep folds of her crinkled lips and orangey pink powder which wobbles on the hairs of her chin... She wouldn’t let me in at first.’ Alicia Queripel, a retired actress, lives alone with her memories in Shepard’s Bush. Until the day Alison Woodgate appears on her doorstep to visit the old lady she has been ‘allocated’ by Age Concern. Alicia, suspicious, is at first reluctant to be patronized by a mousy do-gooder. They seem to enjoy little in common. How could Alison’s boyfriend Rob compare with Alicia’s dear departed Leonard, a paragon among men? As the weeks pass, however, an unlikely friendship develops over tea and cakes and slowly, through the mingled layers of memory and imagination, an unsuspected pattern starts to emerge.

About Helen Harris

Helen Harris has published four novels and many short stories in a wide range of magazines and anthologies. She teaches creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and runs a life story writing programme for older people.