My novels reflect this community spirit, and all have small groups of people – crossing class, age and gender – who are friends and work together through the roller coaster ride of life. Also, because the women I grew up with were, by necessity, tough and go-getting with a sense of humour, my heroines are gutsy and strong. Real women in real situations.

– from the website of author Christina Jones, Biography

I stumbled onto British novelist Christina Jones’s books a couple of years ago just as the Dean campaign came to a crashing halt and was instantly fascinated by her vision of community and go-to spirit. You see, my situation mirrored the emotional climate of her stories. Sad, forced to abandon hope and reconcile myself to a compromised future, I was uplifted by her stories of friends banding together to create a better world for themselves. Continue reading →