Mary Valentine Williams: 4 books

SYNOPSIS: What Happened To Selina Smith by Valentine Williams. A novella for young readers 12 + Based on real events in Market Drayton and surroundings in the 1880s. SELINA SMITH, 13, oldest of four children, leaves school at 13 and attends the May Hiring Fair where she is taken on by...

A little girl is orphaned in the Boxing Day Tsunami. No one knows who she is or what language she speaks. An aid worker visiting the orphanage discovers her name and wants to reunite her with family members, but the orphanage is in rebel held territory. A ransom is demanded. Aid worker Claire enlists...

Jane has been locked up in a high security hospital for killing her children. Well meaning intervention by Dr. Townsend begins to uncover early events in Jane's life. While attending her sister's funeral, Jane escapes and goes back to the Belgian caravan site where the murders took place. She connects...

Synopsis LOSING IT gives an authentic voice to a woman alienated by her madness and by the crimes she has committed. Referencing Plath’s The Bell Jar and the stories of Jean Rhys, the book allows us to enter her internal world, and we are drawn ever more closely into a conflict between sanity and...