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