Books by Jean Rafferty

From the award-winning author of Myra, Beyond Saddleworth.A novel that dares to look unflinchingly at a subject the media have turned away from.Alma Black is a campaigning journalist who travels to Orkney to interview Hugh Watts, a troubled survivor of childhood Satanist abuse. Through listening to the terrible details of his story, she is forced to confront the demons in her own past.As the summer solstice approaches, Alma is drawn into events she can't control. Not all that happens on Midsummer Night is a delicious Dream...Jean Rafferty is an award-winning journalist. Her first novel, Myra, Beyond Saddleworth, was short-listed for the inaugural Gordon Burn prize.

Longisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize 2015 "e;Powerful stories."e; - Marina Warner. Obsession, longing, deceit and even murder feature in this quartet of provocative novellas, which gives a modern twist to tales of women for whom all is not necessarily as it seems. Drawing on history, culture and lore, this is a riveting exploration of the complexities of motherhood: edgy and engrossing, moving, yet at times, disturbing.