She's heard things that threaten her life.

In the back-to-backs of Victorian Birmingham, Angelina Becory is the woman you send for in the dark hours; when a baby is coming, when a man is dying and the priest won't venture out in the rain, or when a secret needs burying alongside the body.

She's Romani-Irish, working-class, and survives by keeping her mouth shut and her hands busy. But forty years of deathbed confessions, gang wounds, and dangerous men's last words have left her carrying a burden that no woman should bear alone.

When the sins of the dead reach into the lives of the living, Angelina must decide how much silence a soul can hold — and how much it costs to finally let it go.

This is a voice from Victorian Birmingham you won't forget.

'Angelina' sits alongside 'A Legacy Forged', Book 1 of the Seller & Son Series. At around 220 pages this is shorter than 'ALF'. ARC readers report that it's a great weekend read or an easy bedtime read over a week. A couple read it in one day with feet up on a sun-lounger!