The Death of Little Alice

By Juniper Williams

A haunting story of need, exploitation and cruelty, set in the Victorian seas side town of Llandudno, North Wales.

Simon Barnsley Cartwright is a barrister, a conventionally successful man with a high local profile. Alice Louise Banks is a girl of nineteen, deep in a hole she cannot climb out of. They are also predator and victim. Both surveilled by a mysterious watcher...who relates the story from its beginning on a snow bound street to its climax high in the dark on Llandudno's Great Orme.

Llandudno is a dark place, full of foreboding - a Llandudno '...that visitors seldom see, and of which residents are only dimly aware...' A place where 'knots of girls as skinny as skeletons, pale as ghosts haunt shadowy recesses dressed only in rags and tatters.' Girls who have a desperate need. A need so severe they can't say no….no matter what is asked of them… A tale which is poignant and harrowing by turns; exploring the darker side of human nature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Juniper Williams
• Release date: May 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393449270

Juniper Williams

Juniper Williams was born in Snowdonia, but was brought up in rural North Yorkshire. She studied at the universities of York and Edinburgh before spending two years backpacking around Australia, America, and South-East Asia. She has worked variously as an Information Analyst, barmaid, waitress, and (occasional) TV/Film extra. She now does freelance IT work and divides her writing time between her short stories and her first novel 'The Daughters of Audrey Hepburn.' She lives in Yorkshire, in a house she is renovating herself using YouTube videos Her hobbies are travel, rock climbing, and winemaking. She has a cat named Morticia (Mo for short!).

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The Death of Little Alice

Juniper Williams

Published by Juniper Williams, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

THE DEATH OF LITTLE ALICE

First edition. May 17, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Juniper Williams.

ISBN: 978-1393449270

Written by Juniper Williams.

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If you drive out of Llandudno town centre, away from the bright lights and bustle of Mostyn Street - and it only takes a few minutes if the traffic lights are with you - you will find a very different Llandudno. This is a Llandudno that visitors seldom see; a Llandudno of which residents are only dimly aware. Here you may find a street where knots of girls as skinny as skeletons, pale as ghosts, haunt shadowy recesses dressed only in rags and tatters. In my calling, I visit a number of such streets, but tonight it is this one.

It is a shady street, deeply sunk in shadow, only faintly lit by street-lamps, and with the majority of occupants locked inside for the night. It is also eerily quiet, a world away from the crackle and the commotion of the centre. Even the skulking traffic makes little noise, each car crawling along the kerb quietly scrutinising the skin on offer. It is a street that could be at the end of the world.

Llandudno is a place I have visited many, many times over the years, I know it well. Intimately. But this street is the type of place that I never relish. I am always glad when my business is complete. Today that business