Kirjahaku

June folds socks. She comments on Dallas she shops in the supermarket. She sits in the pub. Frank sees her, but he doesn't know why; nobody else does. Set in Airdrie, Scotland in the 1980s, Frank is a touching, bittersweet and gently humorous novel that explores how a father and daughter cope in grief. For Frank, holding on for longer is the least painful way to let go. For Jackie, it means losing herself in the music of the decade and seeking out a family of her own. But who is holding onto whom?

Secrets. For years, Frank has kept a secret about his late wife, June, from their daughter, Jackie. Mrs Morrisson knows it, and, back in the day it was the top gossip in the small town of Airdrie. Jackie's friend Daniel has a secret too, and it's getting harder and harder for him to keep it. As she investigates her mother's past, Jackie finds that they have more in common in their love life than she realised. Determined to do the right thing by her young daughter, June, Jackie searches her soul for the solution to life as a single mum. Will Jackie be able to give Daniel the support he needs? And who is the new 'priest' that's causing temperatures to rise?

Frank is at the centre of two Junes. One June is his granddaughter; his everyday light and sunshine who seems troubled. The other is his dead wife, who seems to be appearing in visions again, this time to Father Cleary. He reaches out to help as best he can; but for one of them, there's nothing he can do. The Life and Soul trilogy follows three generations of a family in Airdrie, Scotland, as they experience both the ordinary and the extraordinary through love and loss.