THE SAME SIDE OF THE MOON

by Coral Perfitt

Once sixteen-year-old Will spots Frances in the rectory garden, he can’t get her out of his head. He takes his chances and knocks on the rectory door. Frances is lonely but when they’re together, none of their past troubles matter. Then disaster strikes and Will moves impossibly far away.
Frances is determined to find Will again. For one thing, she needs to tell him some important news. But can their relationship survive? Life is often dangerous in the 19th century North East of England. Can they ever have the same passions and dreams—ones that don’t involve more folk dying; or getting imprisoned in the ominous reformatory!
When she suspects something sinister is going on at the nearby girls’ reformatory, Frances becomes a detective. She enlists an unlikely bunch of people from her past to help her investigate. Can her husband put aside his prejudice to rescue her when her life is in danger?

240 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2024

About the author

Coral Perfitt lives in rural Oxfordshire, the home of crime drama! She began writing in 2021 and uses a love of detective fiction as influence for her page-turning romantic suspense. The Same Side of the Moon is her first novel.
When she’s not transforming her ancestors into women sleuths, Coral is teaching acupuncture. Otherwise you’ll probably find her outdoors being passionate about the environment, or else buried in the church accounts.