LanternOfLancashire
Leah comes back to her Lancashire village with two suitcases, a bruised sense of pride, and the uncomfortable feeling that the city has quietly sent her home for repairs. Then, on the train back, a strange and charming man in a dark chequered coat tells her about a Sunday cloud and biscuit appreciation group in the park.
It sounds ridiculous. Naturally, she goes.
There she finds Doreen, with her biscuit tin and big-hearted certainty; June, who sees whole worlds in the clouds; Frank, who loves June with a patience that is both tender and breaking; Ben, who makes weather feel like an invitation; and Helen, June and Frank's daughter, practical and frightened, trying to hold her family together as June's dementia deepens.
Told in poems, The Cloud and Biscuit Appreciation Group is a story about coming home, found family, slow-burn love, and the quiet ways people save one another - with tea, with biscuits, with turning up, and with looking where someone points before it disappears.