The Watch
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Quiet streets hide the worst crimes
Manchesterβs Manor Estate is the kind of place people want to live β smart houses, neighbours who look out for you. But what if you donβt want to be seen?
Behind the tidy front gardens and glossy painted doors it seems everyoneβs got something to hide. Love, hate, addiction, jealousy β on a street where everyoneβs watching, you canβt keep a secret forever.
For these families, itβs time to find out what is really happening on home territory. Someoneβs selling their soul, someoneβs selling their body, and someoneβs going to pay...
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Karen Woods started her career as a novelist after an adult literacy course aged 39. Since then sheβs 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.
