The Hunger Within

The Hunger Within

<b>Northern Ireland, 1981</b><br /><br />The Troubles are tearing apart the country. <br /><br />Neighbour turns on neighbour as the Catholic/Protestant divide rages on.<br /><br />In Maze Prison, a group of men start a hunger strike, wanting to be recognised as political prisoners. On the outside, personal lives are also caught up in the turmoil. <br /><br />When Bronwyn and Danny married, she had high hopes for their future.<br /><br />Now, they barely speak and Danny keeps such strange hours. <br /><br />When she learns Danny is involved in a shooting, she calls the police and he's sent off to the Maze, where he joins the hunger strikes.<br /><br />Meanwhile Rose James is not a pretty girl, nor is she strong.<br /><br />But she’s risking everything to date Connor Dean, a Protestant. <br /><br />When Connor is shot, Rose’s world threatens to tear apart,<br /><br />Her mother throws her out and with nowhere to go, she moves in with Connor’s mother, Mary, a formidable woman who also lost Connor’s father to The Troubles. <br /><br />But it's not long before Mary sets out to get rid of Rose, travelling to The Maze to enlist Danny’s help. <br /><br />He is the man who shot her son and Mary knows there's nothing he won't do to get a job done.<br /><br />He agrees to make her problem disappear, if Mary will get Bronwyn to visit him. But no one could foresee the events that the handshake deal triggers. <br /><br />And as Danny weakens, and death hovers, everyone’s lives are changed forever.<br /><br />Set against the backdrop of The Troubles, <em>The Hunger Within</em> is rich with history, pathos and the unique pride that comes with surviving in a dark and hostile time. <br /><br /><h2>Praise for J M Hewitt</h2><br /><br /><b>‘An assured and absorbing read... Hewitt is an exciting newcomer to the Crime canon’ - Alex Marwood; Edgar and Macavity-winning Crime Author<br /><br />'A thrilling story, brilliantly told.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of <em>Cold Kill</em></b><br /><br /><b>J.M Hewitt</b> is a crime writer living in Suffolk. Hewitt won the BritCrime Pitch Competition 2015 and was selected as a finalist in the Twisted 50 Short Story Horror Collection 2016. She is a member of the Crime Writers Association, the East Anglian Writers and is a regular at The Felixstowe Book Festival.