Quiet streets hide the worst crimes
Manchesterâs Manor Estate is the kind of place people want to live â smart houses, neighbours who look out for you. But what if you donât want to be seen?
Behind the tidy front gardens and glossy painted doors it seems everyoneâs got something to hide. Love, hate, addiction, jealousy â on a street where everyoneâs watching, you canât keep a secret forever.
For these families, itâs time to find out what is really happening on home territory. Someoneâs selling their soul, someoneâs selling their body, and someoneâs going to pay...
Karen Woods started her career as a novelist after an adult literacy course aged 39. Since then sheâs written more than 25 novels about her native Manchester, writing with true grit about the dark side of the city and drawing on her own life story. She works in a school for excluded pupils and campaigns to spread the transformative power of reading and writing in under-served communities.