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Small Change
by Keddie Hughes
An unsolved murder, a marriage at breaking point and a football club in crisis collide into one woman’s life in this dramatic new novel, set against political upheaval in Glasgow in 2011. Forty-two-year-old Izzy Campbell wants more from life than a husband who is a fanatical Glasgow Rangers football supporter and a borderline alcoholic. She has always put her family’s needs first, but with her son turning eighteen she decides it’s time things change. Izzy volunteers at the Citizen’s Advice Bureau and enrols for a part-time degree in Social Sciences, and when she encounters a charismatic journalist, Sean Docherty who is investigating alleged financial mismanagement at Rangers, she finds herself offering to help. Before she knows it, she is drawn into the excitement of political activism and the arms of an attractive man. Her loyalties are further tested when she discovers her husband’s part in the murder of a young fan from Rangers’ arch enemy – Celtic. The choices Izzy makes will determine the future of her life. An engaging and heartfelt story ofone woman’s personal transformation.
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Keddie Hughes was born in Glasgow and for the past 30 years has built a successful career as a psychologist advising companies how to get the best out of their people. A shortened version of her Doctoral thesis on Trust was published in the academic press in 2014. Although passionate about her work in large multi national organisations, she has always had the ambition to write fiction. As a young girl she was obsessed with reading and writing stories but career, marriage and children intervened. Now she has decided to allow thirty years of suppressed story telling to be released. An Obstinate Vanity is her debut novel.
