Blank for your own message: A Collection of Short Stories about Parents and Children - Softcover

Jennings, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1999746473 ISBN 13: 9781999746476

Publisher: Lioness Writing Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

A father seeks insurance against being disappointed by his son; a mother is tempted to steal a toy at a toddler's birthday party; a grandmother is stuck between two rollers in a soft play centre... Blank For Your Own Message is a collection of short stories about the minefield that is parenting in the 21st century. Written with warmth, humour and compassion, if you've spent any amount of time caring for children, you'll relate to the conflicts and craziness that the characters contained in this collection are dealing with.

About this title

About the Author

Liz Jennings grew up in a South London vicarage in the 1970s. She began writing as a student in the 1990s, and her reviews, interviews, features and fiction have appeared in a variety of magazines and publications. Her short stories have won several prizes and her plays have been performed locally in Canterbury, where she lives. Her small group resource, Short Christians: exploring faith through fiction, is published by Lioness, and Liz runs story and discussion sessions in church settings. Liz also designs and facilitates creative groups for people with a diagnosis of dementia, and was editor for Welcome To Our World, available through the Alzheimer's Society. In 2017 she was awarded the Emma Kent Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution for engaging and empowering people with dementia to enjoy expressing themselves creatively. Her stories are characterised by her use of humour, often bitter-sweet. She is currently working on her second novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lioness Writing Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999746473
• ISBN 13: 9781999746476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103