📱 eBook en inglés FOR THE LOVE OF WILLIE

Peggy is sixteen, ambitious and wants to get a job to help her rise above her current predicament. Soon, she is employed at Willie Ropers corner shop. But before long, her situation goes from bad to worse as she falls in love with her married, older employer.

Looking back to her misspent youth, Peggy, now in a psychiatric hospital, is turning her teenage exploits into a romance novel and is trying to get her bedfellow, the duchess, to read the manuscript – but she would rather read a Mills and Boon.

As we read both sides of the tale, we learn about the fate of young Peggy and how she came to be in the duchesss company; the novel culminates in a surprising narrative punch.

A book that remains both shocking and quietly revolutionary – Heather Parry

Agnes Owens hallmarks have been a frank irony, a deadpan gothic quality and a down-to-earth insistence on the surreality of most peoples normality – Ali Smith

Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.