The Froggitt Chain - Softcover

Angel, Katharine Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908098988 ISBN 13: 9781908098986

Publisher: Katharine Ann Angel, 2013

Synopsis

Everybody's best mate but nobody's soul mate. Milkman Peter Froggitt is stressed out and when life overwhelms him he always runs. Now he is terrified. In his new stealth-camper, he heads north, running from the memory of a dead woman, his fear of the Watcher on the scrubland and from his own interminable loneliness. In his possession is the heavy gold chain he has kept since childhood. The chain he took from The Blackened Man. At 4.30am, in an attempt to re-invent himself as a carefree man, Peter tosses his burden into a field; a bag containing the chain, along with letters from his father and his ex-wife, his phone, some keys and a mysterious photograph of a pale, scruffy child. But from a hotel balcony, Hugo Quin is watching. And when Hugo is watching, anything is possible. The Froggitt Chain is a story of ordinary people who long to belong. It is about brokenness, connection and hope. "It's rare to come across such an original voice and to find a book that is both very funny and intensely moving." K. Holmes

About this title

About the Author:

Katharine Ann Angel was born in Kent in 1959 to medics Robert St John and Jean-Ann Angel. She graduated as a middle-school teacher in London in 1982, after teaching practice in Greenford and Southall. Later, she taught a class of 14 year-olds 'the academic stuff' in a drama and dance school before moving north to Lancashire. Since then she has taught a variety of subjects to children of all ages from foundation to GCSE, with extra patience for those who struggle to understand. After many years of fostering, Katharine worked as a tutor/caseholder for NT&AS (the National Teaching and Advisory Service) where the emphasis on inclusion for all is the highest priority. Most of her teenage pupils had been permanently excluded from school. She witnessed their frustrations, anguish and disappointments as they struggled to fit in, to be accepted and comprehend the academic world as well as their triumphs: a GCSE or a successful college course. Katharine's first love is writing fiction but while raising own children, fostering and teaching, she had to put this on hold so "Being Forgotten" is the first piece submitted for publication: 'As a small tribute to my pupils!' she says. In 1987 Katharine was runner-up in a Lion/Strait short story competition given the theme of the battle between good and evil in the universe, with 'The Lives of Stanley Pritchard.' Katharine also writes modern, humorous, educational stories for teenagers who "need to read to succeed!"

About this edition

• Publisher: Katharine Ann Angel
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908098988
• ISBN 13: 9781908098986
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412