JOSS: A Middleton Story

by John Wheatley

When she is displaced to Middleton, near Manchester, England, in 1962,to stay with her strange Aunt Mary, an unhappy 13 year old Joanna Logan, begins a diary. The diary reflects all her unanswered questions about what is happening with her parents. It also records her experience of Middleton, and the friendship she forms with Joss, the boy from down the street, who, unknown to his family, is keeping a special dog, Riverside Lad. Twenty five years later, Joanna returns to Middleton, and discovers the secrets which lay beneath her aunt`s life, secrets which she never suspected at the time.

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2018

About the author

Born in Middleton near Manchester and educated in the north-west. Worked as a teacher and a plumber.

I've got 25 titles out there, novels and novellas. My books usually have a regional and historical settings - Anglesey, Middleton, West Yorkshire.