I’ll
Be There
by
Janet
Woods
1960/70s
London/Dorset.
Janey Renfrew has a troubled childhood in a
quiet English village. A traumatic assault causes loss of her memory and she
names the wrong man. He is sent to prison.
Leaving
home when she’s sixteen she goes to London and is befriended my Sandy. Both
girls have dreams – Janey’s is to become a successful artist.
Due
to the good friends she makes, Janey succeeds. She meets Drifter, an
American, and falls in love. Janey moves in with him and has his child. Drifter
is pulled into the 70’s drug scene. Janey’s drink is laced and she swallows a
small amount of LSD. The resulting ‘trip” opens her mind to the previous
assaults and she discovers that she named the wrong man.
Forced to return to America by his grandfather
Drifter abandons Janey and their baby daughter. The pair are offered shelter by
Janey’s agent, Devlin. He is a slave driver, but he wants her to succeed.
Back
into her life comes Griff, a long time friend from the village they grew up in.
He is now a doctor. Beset by guilt over the past, she determines that she must put right the wrong that she unwittingly caused an innocent man. But there are other complications – especially when Janey falls in love and must chose one man over the other..
First
published by Robert Hale London as “Against The Tide” 2003.
Copyright
© Janet Woods
NOW RELEASED. e book available from Belgrave House.
