THE CUCKOO AND THE CUCKQUEAN
Part One Valencia Province 1914 EXTRACT I am Liliana. I am a cuckoo placed in a stranger’s nest. Not secretly, but brazenly. Not once,...
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Patricia Roman Books
Mafia murder, espionage, a troubled boy and a self-loathing man.
(Shortlisted for the Flash novel competition 2022)
You can buy it on Amazon worldwide.
UK link https://amzn.eu/d/8ohVcJq
A story from yesterday reflecting the #metoo movement of today.
(Shortlisted for the Flash novel competition 2023)
You can buy it on Amazon worldwide.
UK link
AUDIOBOOK https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9788409649082
Spanish suffragettes, feminine subjugation, sadness and joy.
Out now at independent bookshops worldwide and through Amazon
Works in Progress:
Whispers in the wash house
(a collaboration with digital artist Lynn Amass Hardy)
'El Bigote
(A Gentleman Pirate)'
'Our Name is Isabel'
Historical fiction set in Spain. Patricia's novels are sometimes described as political, literary fiction.
Praise for Patricia Roman Books
"This is a valuable book, with characters that are familiar, three-dimensional and authentic” (Katie Isbester, Claret Press)
"An interesting, evocative novel with some lovely descriptive passages" (Eleni Kyriacou, author of The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou)
"An excellent story that tells a really relevant and engaging story" Ybernia Books, Madrid
“A fast-paced story that gripped me throughout and kept me guessing.” (a beta reader)
“Both uncomfortable and compelling to read.” (a beta reader)
"I was blown away by this beautiful and tragic story" (a beta reader)
Wild places awash with yearning.
Extract from The Cuckoo and the Cuckquean: a story about feminism and the Spanish Suffragettes. "They met in the limbo of the estuary,...
Symbolism with oranges!
An extract from page 199 of Letters from the Mountains "Each morning Ernesto lay in bed listening for the distant clatter of her bicycle,...
Extract from page 16 of 'Mothers Daughters Liars'
"On Sundays I was allowed to play with the rich children all dressed up in their Sunday best and we’d charge down Main Street making such...
A story from yesterday, reflecting the #metoo movement of today.
Here is the back-blurb for novel number two Mothers Daughters Liars . "An epidemic of cholera changes Tia’s life forever. Her father...
Mafia Murder, a Cuban musician and a troubled boy.
Here's the back-blurb to my first novel Letters from the Mountains which has earned a shortlisting in an internation novel competition...
serendipitous juxtaposition
Let’s talk serendipitous juxtaposition; when two elements are brought together unintentionally, to produce another, previously...
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