Allen & Unwin The Punch and Judy Girl book Fiction English Paperback 320 pages

A new novel from the Queen of family saga, Sheila Newberry.

Suffolk, 1925At only sixteen years old, May Moon travels to West Wick, Suffolk to become the local Punch and Judy girl.Determined to fulfil her dead father's wishes, and to continue his business, May has her work cut out for her during her summer on the beach.Staying with a local family, she not only enjoys the silvery sand and sunshine, she also experiences first love, partings and reunions. And, before long, realises that performing might be in her blood...

Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first 'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family has certainly been her inspiration and she has been published most of her adult life. She spent forty years living in Kent with her husband John on a smallholding, and has nine children and twenty-two lively grandchildren. They retired back to Suffolk where Sheila still lives today.