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[juliehamill]

My next book 'June' (fiction) will be published on October 31st, 2023. The publishers, Saron (and I), chose this date as pagans believed it signified when the “door” to the Otherworld was opened so that the souls of the dead could enter this world.

This is part III and the concluding part of the Life and Soul trilogy following 'Frank' (part I) and 'Jackie' (part II).

The book is set during the period 1993-1994. June, named after her late grandmother, is now seven years old. She lives with her mother, Jackie, her grandfather, Frank and her mother's French boyfriend, Jean Paul, in a house in Bell Street, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. Her birth father, Tommy, is in prison.

As with the previous two novels, music features and punctuates the story. There is an accompanying Spotify playlist (2 hrs) that represents the music tastes and references made by the characters from 'June'. You can find it here.

The trilogy is about love in ordinary family life. It's also about much missed loved ones who are gone, the souls of whom can still be present for extraordinary reasons such as love, missing, coping, grief... and other paths.

That's why the series is named 'Life and Soul'.

You'll see.

Julie x