If you're coming to Coles by car, why not take advantage of the 2 hours free parking at Sainsbury's Pioneer Square - just follow the signs for Pioneer Square as you drive into Bicester and park in the multi-storey car park above the supermarket. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. You don't need to shop in Sainsbury's to get the free parking! Where to Find Us Mary was struggling too. Her eyesight was failing. There was a mist in the middle of her field of vision. You might wonder about a detached retina but Hilary Taylor trusts her readers: she lets them come to their own conclusions about what's happening and there's plenty to think about. Rachel and Mary are drawn together. Mary's anti-authority and only trusts reluctantly. She has no religious faith but she understands the depths of Rachel's grief: she's suffered losses of her own. The difficulty is that Adam is nursing a secret and it's impossible to see how Rachel will be able to exercise the forgiveness which is the basis of her faith. Utterly engrossing and atmospheric, Sea Defences is an extraordinarily accomplished debut novel with its bare but beguiling prose and poignant exploration of loss. I loved it!’ Thank you. I was delighted to win that prize – I really believed in the piece. I don’t think it will become anything longer, but I’m currently working on something that’s partly set on the Home Front in the 1940s, so I’ve been researching things like the Make Do and Mend campaign. I suppose instead of something longer growing from a short piece, the short piece was a by-product of preparing a longer work. text applies that Michael does not even know what pedophilia means and that he does not understand why

My story jumped about a bit with chronology which was risky, but paid off. If you do this, make sure it’s not confusing. A heartbreaking exploration of grief and faith, with undercurrents of unease and intrigue, this is a tender, poignant and compassionate literary thriller' Philippa EastJoin Oulton Broad Library for their weekly Prime Time social group for older people! Get involved with games, quizzes, crafts, and chatting with others.

This is expressed in both the narrative technique and in the style of writing in lines 1-12. In the narrativeI did think hard about this because I’m not someone who swears, and I do have a threshold where I, too, find it off-putting in literature and drama. Mary’s ‘mild’ swearing is very much part of her character. She is forthright, rather grumpy and generally cross with most people. The other swearing, and there isn’t much, happens when the characters have been brought to extremes of emotion, and their inhibitions are gone. The setting throughout the short story changes several times, and it feels like there are two storylines in the short story.