Adrift Author Forename:Will Marianne Shearer is at the

Marianne Shearer is at the height of her career

a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband

In the midst of upheaval and rebellion

Last year's scandal did nothing to help with the disapproval she already gets as a woman in her line of work

wild moorland and its savage apparition

Adrift Author Forename:Will Marianne Shearer is at thePeggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they battle against the hardness and manipulation of the man they live with. To the outside world he is a husband and father. To them, he is a captor. Their lives are tightly controlled; if any perceived threat appears, their mooring is moved further down the canal, further away from civilisation. Until the day