Mauveine

The Creativepubtalk book podcast is dedicated to the broadcasting of published science-themed novels, written and narrated by author, Roy Baldwin, and provided in listenable and readable discrete chapters. The first podcast is Mauveine, a contemporary ghost story which commences introduction through chapter one in the year 1990, set in the rural community of West Lancashire. Aged sixteen, wayward Victoria McKenzie flees from home to a commune in Amsterdam and never speaks to her parents again. Now aged thirty-five, single and a senior scientist, she is forced to reassess the future when she learns of an unusual inheritance taking her mind back to childhood events and places alongside the Leeds and Liverpool canal she never hoped to experience again. Intrigued, she is summoned to a strange meeting with a Liverpool solicitor and bumps into the quaint Julian, an introverted steampunk writer, all grey hair and flying scarves. But what is it about her past that nobody wants to talk about? She must track down the source of family secrecies and find out who the terrifying woman in the purple shawl really is. And is Julian all he makes out to be?