Frankie Gosling

The story begins in 1960, Nolwen grows up in a poor family in a remote part of West Wales. She is subjected to bullying at school where she is given the nickname Frankie Gosling. Escaping parental direction, she joins the WRAF at the age of seventeen, where she is forced to respond to the demands of strict disciplinarians, despite her fragile state of mind, a visual disorder and directional dyslexia. To face the challenges ahead she adapts her personality with pre-meditated positive and negative changes and is spurred along by wrongly motivated devious strategies.

Armed with her personality changes but hindered by amnesia, a visual disorder and directional dyslexia, where she experiences episodes of memory loss, she is forced into a second career. The tide turns when she is selected to act as the presenter for her C.E.O. who is afflicted by a speech impediment and she re-discovers a musical talent which has lain dormant since her childhood. Nolwen falls in love, but her happiness is ripped apart. Although heart-breaking, humour lightens her story with engaging developments.

Diagnosed with a condition which affects Nolwen’s mind during her twilight years, we intriguingly revisit the events of her life. Links are formulated between her cognitive state and strange actions, with events of her youth and the psychological wounds which shaped her character.

• Publisher: Troubador Publishing
• ISBN: 9781836280743
• Number of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm