And as for that black cat with the skinny tail and missing eye, there’s no way she’s getting anywhere near me.

Among these unruly and noisy mutts, I intend to remain aloof and guarded. However, I shall do my best to maintain my dignity while getting on with the job. My parents have abandoned me into boarding kennels in the Far North of New Zealand, while they travel the world. I’m a real pedigree dog, and I’ve got real papers to prove it. And so she sets off on a whole new journey of discovery, taking her eclectic group of friends with her.

She challenges her diagnosis she is too young for this kind of condition and she has too much life to live. Because of her mixed parentage, she has inherited a specific gene, which has made her a candidate for colorectal cancer. At the brink of despair, she experiences deepening depression and manic behavior…īethany, recently returned from Europe, seeks medical advice for a stomach upset. So the guests trickle in – hardly the sophisticates Miranda has envisaged. But now with paying guests expected, she must make some serious decisions. Hamilton, her lascivious financial advisor, seizes the opportunity to undermine her. In her frantic drive for success Miranda hires a motley crew to get cracking on the property. She knows little about running a business and depends heavily on loyal cousin Pansy’s expertise. Miranda, a quirky, strong-minded and lovable young woman, splurges her inheritance on the old Miranda Bay Sanatorium in the sub-tropical Bay of Islands, New Zealand, simply because it bears her name. I was raised within the community of the Seacliff Mental Hospital village so it was difficult to know where fiction ended and the greater truth took over… Yet he ultimately rose above it all, and with admirable strength, courage and innate resilience, was finally able to free ‘the regular boy within’ as he had always wanted. When considering the tragedy and abuse of Malcolm’s wasted earlier years, it is a story of immeasurable sadness. We followed his story from childhood to adulthood as best we could even after he was eventually discharged back into the community. Malcolm was one of the ‘lost children’ forgotten or abandoned by their families. Susan’s books will intrigue you, and she’s brought loads of pictures to show, some of them old ones related to her book, Phenomena, inspired by a real story.Īs a child I knew Malcolm, who was then a young man.

Hello peeps! I’m thrilled to host today fellow member of eNovel Authors at Work, Susan Tarr.

Phenomena by Susan Tarr