Flowers for the Protestants

By Janis Spehr

‘I’ll tell you a story that’ll knock ya socks off,’ says an old woman in Janis Spehr’s ‘Little Sheilas’, one of the thirteen compelling stories which make up her fourth collection, Flowers for the Protestants. Many of the characters in these stories face a crisis or dilemma: a woman is torn by c

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Mar 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9781760417147

Janis Spehr

Janis Spehr is highly educated in an utterly useless area and has worked, with no great distinction, at a wide range of jobs. She currently lives and travels in a small caravan and writes whenever she can.

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