Always you, Edina by VG Lee
 Published April 2012, £9.99
ISBN 13: 9780956896995
Ward Wood Publishing
www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk, www.vglee.co.uk

‘Lee writes with unfailing warmth and wisdom about the comedy and complexity of childhood and family life. A real treat of a novel. I loved it’ - Sarah Waters

‘Your dad was very different,’ her grandmother said, ‘not so easy to fathom but he had…well I suppose you’d call it sex appeal. Not only did he have it,
he knew he had it.’

Suddenly a childhood memory is triggered taking Bonnie Benson back over four decades to her ten-year-old self living with her family in Birmingham. It is 1964 and Prince Philip is about to open the newly constructed Bull Ring. Bonnie has three idols in her life; Joanna Bayliss, the most popular girl at her school; glamorous, charismatic Aunt Ed, who ‘could light up a room – if there was a man in that room’; and Bonnie’s father, Ken. Bonnie observes the close relationship between Ed and Ken without comprehending the tragic repercussions it will have on both families.

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VG Lee is the author of three novels, The Comedienne (2000 Diva Books). The Woman in Beige (2003 Diva Books) and Diary of a Provincial Lesbian (2005 Onlywomen Press) In October 2008 Tollington Press published her short story collection As You Step Outside.
She is also a stand-up comedian.