Elise: Book One of the Connections series: 1

What dark secrets could a harmless old lady possibly know?Elise Morgan is nearly ninety years old. She loves her family the sea and night-time walks. She hates gossip and bullies and being called sweet or treated like shes stupid or boring (and sometimes like shes deaf) just because she has lived a long time.Elise was sent to an all-girls school which was evacuated to Cornwall in the Second World War. She never left the county. She is an orphan a mother a grandmother and a widow. Since her children moved away and her best friend died life has seemed increasingly empty.These days she spends a lot of time sitting at her window looking out at the world as if nothing ever happens and nothing ever has. To passers-by she might seem just an old lady but of course there is no such thing.There was once a time when she lived a lot... and there are things she has never forgotten...Elise is the first book in the Connections series: a group of stories whose protagonists lives are inescapably interwoven in the Cornish town they call home.