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Flat 1 is the story of Rose, a survivor of domestic violence who's just finished a residential rehab. The novel opens as Rose holds the keys to her newly acquired council flat. As she lets herself in, walking through the empty, echoing rooms, she starts to plan for a better future: free from violence, free from drugs and united with the son she gave up to foster care due to her struggles with her mental health. It's not all plain sailing, but she's got her dad, who inspires her to start growing vegetables in the overgrown back garden of the flats. We meet her neighbours, her two very different sisters and her neice, Angie, who has her own struggles raising her two children. Through Flat 1, I hope to paint a picture of a normal woman whose life has been torn apart by domestic violence as she struggles with disability, mental health issues, addiction and a bizarre chain of events that could either tip her over the edge, or catapult her into someting she never expected. You c...