Hiya! Croeso! Foon Ying!
I’m Julie Ma and the author of Happy Families and Love Letters. I found my way into becoming a published author by winnin the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition a few years back.
My stories are about what lies behind the ordinary folk you see every day and sometimes take for granted. Everyone you meet has a story; you just have to winkle it out of them. They often have a Chinese takeaway in them too!
If you want to know more about what I’ve done and anything else I get up to, this is the right place.
Thanks for coming. No, I don’t mind if you don’t take your shoes off. Yes, you can though if you like. Tea? Coffee? Squash?
Love Letters
Some old love letters. A lonely teenager. A new beginning . . .
Asta Fung is sixteen and sulky. Her parents have moved the whole family to take over the Yau Sum takeway in another town so Grandpa Charlie can be closer to the big hospital. She’s had to give up her dog, her friends, her familiar teenage life. All too soon, she has to give up Grandpa Charlie too. What was the point?
When the builder’s son, Josh, hands her a bundle of love letters he found under the floorboards, Asta realises they were hidden there by Grandpa Charlie as a young man. Desperate to keep the memory of her grandfather alive, she determines to track down the mysterious Ela Hennessy who wrote them, but as the new girl in town, Asta will have to do it on her own.
Or so she thinks . . .
Available from these usual places from 1st February 2024
Amazon Your local bookshop online!
Signed copies that I will inscribe with whatever you want - Mother’s Day messages, marriage proposals, shopping lists - can be ordered through the lovely team at Goldstone Books.
Happy Families
“Delightful . . .you’ll want to devour this in seconds”
“A wonderful find”
“A takeaway success of a novel. . . this is a spit-your-noodles-out-laughing kind of read”
“Funny, sparky and heartwarming”