Queen of the Road

Diana #2

by Helen Cannam

‘I’ve bought up the business, all of it. From this morning.’Diana Armstrong’s announcement in the spring of 1963 stuns her daughter Carol and overthrows all her preconceptions about what life has to offer, for both of them. But first Carol has to overcome her anger against her recently widowed mother, and her complicated feelings for her dead father. Then there is feckless husband Kenny and their expected child…But her love for the family business in which she grew up wins her over. Together, two women in a man’s world, mother and daughter work to build up the crumbling haulage business into a thriving enterprise. But is it always to be at the expense of their personal lives, of love and happiness?'Queen of the Road' is a sequel to 'Family Business'

329 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000

About the author

I have been a writer all my life, at least since I could put pencil to paper. Writing - story-telling - has always been as natural to me as breathing, an essential part of who I am.

Sometimes using the pen names 'Caroline Martin' and ‘Mary Corrigan’, but mostly my own name, I’ve been a published writer since 1980 and a self-published writer since 2012.

For some years I wrote a column for the Northern Echo. I have also given talks to local groups on my writing (and once, at the Bowes Museum, on my early Laura Ashley dress!).

My occasional blog and details of all my books can be found on my website at www.helencannam.com. I also venture onto Twitter from time to time @HelenCannam.

And, yes, I am still writing...

Reviews

[Alison Young]

North East based story

I read this as the sequel to Family Business as I had enjoyed the first which has compelling characters and an engaging storyline both essentials for a good read. The Queen follows along in a similar vein. I can thoroughly recommend both. I also liked the loving description of the area and it's inhabitants clearly from someone who is local .

[Coleen Myers]

Queen of the road

Great book, a fOllow up to " Family business" is story of a young women who marketing's a family that own a small trucking business. She helps her father in law build it up &watches her alcohollic husband all but lose the company. . She faces many challenges, after husbands death ,taking ov