This Place of Happiness was published on 9th August.
This unusual, enthralling and meticulously researched novel has been described as ‘a genre-busting piece of social history merged with a splash of literary fiction and with an added splash of romance’ and ‘a literary masterpiece’. Poet Mark Peter Howe adds that ’Nicki Herring dances in her writing’ like the dancers in her story, while Mick Jackson, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize with his novel The Underground Man said, ‘Nicki Herring is an exciting new writer. She writes with enviable clarity and no shortage of wit. She’s definitely one to watch.’
This Place of Happiness
Rabia grew up in London, but since the disappearance of her father is trapped in her grandmother’s house, an old Ottoman palace overlooking Algiers.
Ali is being pressurised into marriage with Rabia, but is unable to tell anyone of his love for another man.
And Mani Aicha, Rabia’s grandmother, a cafe bomber during the war, is equally trapped by the secret that she has carried for fifty six years.
All The Way Home
Bea is living rough on the streets of Canterbury. She doesn’t know how to go back home.
Daisy is pregnant and on the game. She doesn’t know how to move forward.
Jacob is living rough with his dog, Buster. He longs to forget.
And Caleb, Jacob’s friend, longs to help all of them find the answers that they need.
Jewel
A twenty first century fairy tale.
Jawalha, a little princess, is separated from her family. Lost completely, everyone assumes she is dead.
Twenty years later Jawalha’s distant cousin, Khalid, realises that Leila, the ITU nurse caring for his brother, might just be the little girl who went missing.
Is she the princess? Khalid needs to find out.
This Place of Happiness is available as a paperback, as a Kindle eBook and on Kindle Unlimited using the above link.