Susan Shaw Books In Order

Novels

  1. Dreams Or Reality (2002)
  2. Black-eyed Suzie (2002)
  3. The Boy from the Baseme*nt (2004)
  4. House of Serenity (2005)
  5. Eleanor (2005)
  6. Too Many Wasted Years (2006)
  7. All I Ask Of You (2007)
  8. Safe (2007)
  9. The Other Half of Me (2009)
  10. One of the Survivors (2009)
  11. Tunnel Vision (2011)

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Susan Shaw Books Overview

Black-eyed Suzie

‘I live in a box with four sides, tall and brown. I cannot get out.’With these words, readers enter the world of Suzie, a dark eyed twelve year old who desperately needs to feel safe and worthy of love. Suzie’s ‘box’ is a psychological prison. In it, she sits with arms wrapped around her legs, feet on the cushion of a gold living room chair, knees pressed against her chin. She can no longer eat, sleep, speak, or walk. Although she doesn’t know it, living in a box threatens her life. Suzie’s mother, a singer who feels she sacrificed her career in order to raise a family, insists that Suzie is just ‘going through a stage.’ Suzie’s father is rarely home. Only Suzie’s older sister Deanna makes an effort to understand what’s happening, but even Deanna can’t help. Life begins to change when Suzie’s Uncle Elliot stops by unexpectedly. Realizing at once that Suzie is in serious trouble, Elliot demands that she be taken to a hospital. Suzie suddenly finds herself in St. Dorothy’s, a mental hospital where she begins a long and fear filled journey. Here, she meets an understanding therapist named Stella and a boy named Joshua, who offers his friendship while struggling with a tragedy of his own. However, Suzie also meets Karen, a patient on the ward who both terrorizes and challenges her. To make sense of her world, Suzie must piece together a puzzle that involved seemingly unrelated clues a broken bicycle, a torn picture, peacock feathers, ducks swimming in a pond on the hospital ground, a batch of burned cookies. When the pieces finally come together, they reveal a secret that will change Suzie’s life forever. However, they also give her a chance to regain her voice and reclaim her spirit.

The Boy from the Baseme*nt

For Charlie, the baseme*nt is home. He’s being punished. He doesn’t mean to leave Father wouldn’t allow it but when Charlie is accidentally thrust outside, he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he’s never been exposed. Though haunted by fear of the baseme*nt and his father’s rage, Charlie embarks on a journey toward healing and blossoms when he becomes an unconditionally loved and loving member of the right foster family. This carefully crafted and authentic portrayal of Charlie’s emotional and physical abuse is gracefully matched by Susan Shaw’s inspiring and deeply moving story of recovery.

Too Many Wasted Years

Edith hears her young man has died fighting at the front after their last quarrelsome meeting when she refuses his advances to make love. During her grief she meets Alfred, a passionate man; she’s soon pregnant yet unwed. Though a kind man money runs through his fingers causing many changes in their circumstances. Edith spends her marriage regretting he isn’t her first love. When Alfred dies, Edith becomes a housekeeper and discovers what love really means. She realises she’s been chasing a dream, but it’s too late to go back and make amends to Alfred.

All I Ask Of You

It is prior to WW11 and Dorothy unexpectedly meets a young man, called Harry, at the local dance hall. They are instantly attracted and ultimately marry. After the outbreak of war Harry joins the RAF but sadly he is killed in action. Dorothy receives the happy news that she is pregnant with their first child, unaware of Harry’s death. She also suffers the loss of their home in a bombing attack on Hull. Dorothy idolises her baby daughter but on recovering from her grief she realises life has to go on so when she is proposed to by Richard she accepts. She does not realise the marriage is going to have dire consequences on her relationship with her daughter, Elizabeth. Things go from bad to worse when Dorothy has two sons in quick succession. By the time she is a teenager, Elizabeth goes totally off the rails in order to seek the show of love she yearns from her mother. It is only at Dorothy’s premature death, caused by cancer, does Elizabeth understand the true definition of love.

Safe

Safe. To Tracy, safe means having Mama close by. Years after her mother’s death, Tracy still feels her presence. But the moment Tracy is forced into a car as she is walking home from school one day, safe is ripped away. In the aftermath of an unspeakable crime, thirteen year old Tracy must fight her way back to safety and find comfort in her mother s memory once again.

Susan Shaw returns with a raw and moving story of a young rape victim s journey toward healing, empowered by poetry and music, family and friends.

The Other Half of Me

This is a story of two women from very varying backgrounds. We follow the girls growing up and eventually Megan find out she was adopted as a baby. Fate steps in and the women meet but neither of them envisaged the dramatic effects the truth could have on their lives.

One of the Survivors

24 DEAD, 2 SURVIVORS

HOW CAN YOU FIX THAT?
TELL ME HOW!

Anger. Sadness. Rage. Grief. Guilt.

Joey Campbell experiences them all, even though he knows what he should really feel is lucky. Lucky to have survived the fire that burned Village Park High School to the ground. Lucky that his best friend, Maureen, also survived, when no one else in his freshman history class managed to make it out alive.

Writing in a journal provides some solace, but Joey knows that redemption lies with the living. If only the living students and parents didn’t blame him for the fire…

Startling, relevant, and honest, Joey’s story is simply unforgettable.

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