Wish You Were Here

by Lesley Grant-Adamson

On a solitary holiday in northern England, during which she hopes to come to terms with a broken marriage and job dissatisfaction, Linda meets Tom, a charming, attractive loner, who hides a chillingly dangerous dark side.

168 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

Lesley Grant-Adamson (nee Lesley Heycock) was born in Islington, north London in 1942, and spent most of her childhood in Trealaw in the Rhondda.

She now lives in Debenham, Suffolk, but during the 1980s and 1990s lived in Islington, the scene of several of her novels. Since 1968 she has been married to Andrew Grant-Adamson, a communications consultant and lecturer in journalism at City University and Westminster University. Together they wrote A Season in Spain (Pavilion), a portrait of the Alpujarra region of Andalusia where they lived from 1991-3.

She was educated at Dame Alice Owen School and then worked as a journalist in London and the provinces until the early Seventies when she joined the London staff of The Guardian. In 1981 she left The Guardian to write fiction.

She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Royal Society of Literature, the Welsh Academy, East Anglia Writers and the Crime Writers’ Association.

Reviews

[Ainabooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slow, repetitive, predictable... Disappointing. I haven't been able to empathise with the main character, her actions either her passive role.

[Linda Amos · Rating 4 out of 5]

No blood and gore, just a good story switching between now and the events which led up to the character's current predicament. Not scary but a bit predictable. Enjoyable nontheless.