Welcome to Book News — my Friday book slot. If any of you would like me to give your books a plug, please get in touch with your blurb, author bio, a photograph of the book, links and anything else you’d like to add.

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This week, it gives me great pleasure to welcome Sheila Hall to my Book News slot, with her third book, Web of Lies. Here is the blurb:

Cathie stares at the photograph on the mantelshelf. Her eyes fill up with tears.

How could it have gone so wrong? One member of her family in prison. Another dead. A few years ago, Cathie and her husband, Tom, owned a beautiful house and ran a business. Now she was sitting on an old sofa in a rented house on a rough housing estate.

It is 1974. After leaving the army, Cathie and Tom, move to Wales to be nearer to Cathie’s sister, Jenny, who is the victim of her violent, abusive husband, Mick.

Mick drags Tom into a life of crime. Cathie is oblivious to her husband’s other life until she gets a phone call she will never forget.

Cathie loses her house and her business. She is put into temporary accommodation. With three children to bring up on her own, how can she get her life back together?

Sheila’s first book, Family in Need, was writen under the pen name, Antonie Johannson. Here’s a little bit about it:

Cathie and Charlotte move to a Welsh farm in the 1950’s. They lead a normal, happy family lifestyle until tragedy strikes. Their world will never be the same again. They are unknowingly placed in terrible danger by their unwitting father. The girls have to grow up fast and leave their childhood behind.

Sheila’s second book is Deception. Here is a brief overview:

The book is set in 1939, just before the onset of World War 11.Two sisters are living on a smallholding in North Wales.The events about to unfold change their future hopes and dreams forever. Bronwyn involves herself in the war by becoming a nurse and her sister Mair chooses the land Army.These decisions lead the girls on to life changing journeys,not always heading in the right direction.

If you’d like to know more about Sheila, here is her author bio:

I was born in Lancashire and my parents moved to Wales when I was three and I have lived there most of my life .I now live in Mid Wales. I was brought up on a farm in the 1950s. After leaving school I joined the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps and it was at this time that I began to write, prompted by characters and situations that I encountered in my day to day work as an Army nurse.I have written poetry and short stories and Family in Need is my first published book. I am retired now and spend a great deal of my time writing, alongside gardening and time with my family.

You can find Sheila on instagram and Facebook:

Instagram name: sheila.hall.963 

https://www.facebook.com/sheila.hall.963