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Care Trap
Care Trap
Care Trap
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Care Trap

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Strange happenings at Ramsden House care home go unnoticed by the authorities. Set in the beautiful Jurassic coast, this prestigious home started up by a go-ahead professional couple seems the ideal place for star songster, Ursula to place her loved but inconvenient autistic daughter Tosca to develop into adulthood away from her parents’ hectic London lifestyle. To Ursula’s chagrin her best friend, Tosca’s Godmother Isobel, is worried. Through a chance meeting with a man with a disability, Andrew and Bowie his spaniel dog, she’s picked up sinister vibes about Ramsden House. This proves awkward since Ursula relies on Isobel to support her, especially in regard to her handicapped child with whom Isobel has a good relationship.
Tension increases as Isobel becomes involved with Ramsden House. Through her job as a pianist at a grand hotel, she meets the parents and former owners of the house who ask her to befriend their autistic daughter Nikki, currently a resident at Ramsden House. Seeing this as a chance to find out whether Ramsden House could be the right place for her beloved Goddaughter, Isobel agrees. Her alarm grows when on an outing with Nikki she biffs a prominent local do-gooder whom she calls Lord Fuckingdon. Why does Nikki behave like this and why does she not want to return to Ramsden House? Isobel wonders but is unable to make Ursula understand her fears Ramsden House would be bad for Tosca.
Crisis is reached when Isobel, her new friend Andrew, dog Bowie and Nikki, are caught up in the care manager’s death. Forced to clear her name, Isobel becomes detective. Is she been wrong about the new friends? Using her musical sensitivities and empathy, plus the help of Bowie the super nosed spaniel, she ferrets out the real culprit.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherLucy Abelson
Release dateJun 4, 2018
ISBN9780955763199
Care Trap
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Lucy Abelson

Lucy Abelson was born in a small English village in the county of Norfolk. She grew up in Kent where her father ran a small tutorial establishment and her mother was a doctor. Since her parents met on the golf course playing mixed foursomes, the Wildernesse country club played a big part in family life for Lucy and her two brothers. Ever the embryo journalist, Lucy listened avidly to her parents discussions about the various issues and sometimes scandals that beset the local golf world.Lucy spent much of her time outside school in the children's corner of the Sevenoaks bookshop. There she won a general knowledge competition set by the bookshop. This led to a ceremony with the renowned children's author Noel Streatfield presenting the prizes. On hearing the ten year old wanted to be a "writer like you" when she grew up, the great author responded, to hoots of laughter from the assembled grown-ups, "this little girl wants to steal my job". The late Noel might be glad to know the adult Lucy writes mostly crime novels, specialising in the golf world.Her writing career started in her school days when she contributed to magazines. Rebelling against her intellectual family, she eschewed going to university because she had a fixation with writing about "real people" so she was delighted to start a career in magazine journalism writing on a variety of subjects from travel to celebrity interviews and general features. She progressed on to newspapers writing a finance for women column for the Sunday Telegraph from where she moved to the Sunday Express initially writing for the financial pages, specialising in interviews. After her third child was born handicapped, to look after her, Lucy gave up office work but accepted an offer to write a domestic column from home.Now her children are grown-up, Lucy has returned to her first ambition, to write fiction. She is now an enthusiastic amateur golfer and has spent some time as a referee, which together with her inherited experience of the game has put her in a good position to be a doyen of the golf novel.

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