Where to buy
Available in paperback and as an eBook
The Purple Bike is available from independent and major bookstores globally including:
Australia: Readings (online) | Booktopia | Amazon.com.au | Angus & Robertson | Fishpond
UK: Bookshop.org | Amazon.co.uk | Blackwells | Book Depository
North America: Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Barnes & Noble
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About this title
Author: Tamsin Stanford
Published: October 2019
ISBN – paperback: 9780648657217
ISBN – ebook: 978-0-6486572-0-0
It’s February 1992 and Joy thinks she’s in love. Tom is seemingly perfect and has their future – with marriage and kids – all mapped out. But Tom doesn’t know Joy as well as he thought.
All she wants is a quiet life after a childhood in the spotlight. She’s never told Tom about that morning in 1982 when everything changed. Joy couldn’t wait to grow up and escape her hometown but she'll never block out the memories of Jenni and the purple bike.
When Joy is forced to share the secret Tom didn’t know she was keeping, she sees another side of him and wonders if they are meant to be. And then there’s the encounter with the man her mother thinks is a criminal.
Should Joy push aside her doubts and live a conventional life with Tom? Or can she find happiness where she never expected it?
The Purple Bike is an absorbing story about the aftermath of loss, and what can’t be fixed, no matter how hard you try.