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Dove Windsor/I.M. Spooky
Born Dove Rose Windsor
(1999-11-08) 8 November 1999 (age 24)
Birmingham, England
Nationality British
Other names I.M. Spooky
Education Ravenhurst Primary School, Gryphon School, Leicester College, Soft Touch Arts
Occupation Writer, editor, blogger, publisher
Years active 2008-present
Known for Radiance, Elm Tree Road
Home town Leicestershire, England
Parents 2
Relatives 8
Website
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Dove Rose Windsor, more commonly known as I.M. Spooky, (born 8 November 1999) is a British writer, editor, blogger and publisher.

Career

Radiance

Riley Bloom crossed the bridge into the afterlife following a car crash - with her parents and her beloved dog, Buttercup. [1] The afterlife is situated in - Here & Now. [2] And it turns out that the afterlife is not just an eternity of leisure. [3] Riley meets The Council where she is assigned a job as a Soul Catcher, with the weird but maybe cute boy as her guide whose name is Bodhi. [4] Her first assignment will take her back to earth, to everything she's left behind - where she must find the Radiant Boy, a ten-year-old, long - lost spirit in the haunting castles of England for centuries, who doesn't want to move on. [5]

Elm Tree Road

After being driven from home by their brutal father, the Willitt sisters, Mattie, Nell and Renie, find themselves facing greater heartache in the wider world. [6] Nell has left home to be with her lover, Cliff, fearing what reprisals might come from marrying against her father’s wishes. [7]

After parting ways with Mattie the couple takes the youngest sister Renie and head for Lancashire. [8] However, Nell’s happiness is short-lived; her marriage suffering as Cliff resents his job and the fact that though Nell has given him a daughter, she seems unable to conceive another child. [9] When Renie leaves for London, Nell feels desperately alone. [10] Then tragedy strikes, and Nell, mad with grief, runs away in the hope of being reunited with her two sisters. [11] While wandering the English countryside, a gipsy palm-reader tells Nell she will still find her destiny, under ‘three big trees on a hill’. [12]

Her luck seems to change when she meets Gil, a farmer and a gentleman who she can’t help but feel drawn to. [13] Could the trees on his land be a sign, or is Nell too damaged by her past to let herself love again? [14]

The Doll's House

The book centres on the discovery of a dead pre-transition male-to-female transgender individual on a council housing estate in Birmingham. [15] The inside of the house is like a doll's house with pink ribbons and pink walls, stuffed toys and the table set for a tea party DI Phil Brennan on the Major Incident Squad begins investigating the puzzling case. [16]

Author Mark Billingham described the book as 'seriously scary'. [17] In Female First the reviewer wrote 'This book was full of psychopaths, gory murder scenes and scandal and I loved it. [18] I ended up goading myself to read “just a few more pages” all the way through'. [19] In Mystery Tribune the bok was 'recommended for ones looking for psychological thrillers' while the book was also reviewed in Publishers Weekly. [20]

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