'Stoke-on-Trent was sleeping off Friday night, but I was ready for anything.'

She's known as Tabitha, she knows she's being watched. Sometimes she knows why, sometimes not. She never holds back from those who need a helping hand, even if it leads her into trouble -- perhaps because it'll lead her into trouble. And things are getting slightly out of hand...

Coming Back to Life takes you into an England you may not have been to, just down the next street, round the next corner...

'I found the book eminently readable ... It's a book that carries you along non-stop -- a page turner. We begin on the first page with a recognisable everyday set-up that imperceptibly changes into a nightmarish present ... a good read.'
-- Vera Derer

'Riveting ... it's just as if the very smallest kink were made in anyone's England and we'd see things in a totally different way ... not for the complacent ... challenges the committed as well as the apathetic to admit how far they would really go ... I loved it.'
-- Nancy Brown

Catherine Hume was born in Norton-on-Tees in 1980, and has had a rollicking time ever since. She is living in Edinburgh.