It is 1985 and Meg spends her time between school and the legendary Glasgow Apollo (the concert venue where she works). One night, an attack changes her life forever and she flees on the tour bus of MindSet, an Australian rock band.
Each chapter takes her to a different place as she grows from schoolgirl to wife and mother, but can she really escape her past?

Colette Coen brings together her first collection of five emotionally packed short stories and four well-honed flash fiction pieces.
Mrs Thompson's life is shrinking, but will she notice her carer slowing selling her possessions? A starring moment in the school nativity is threatened by an unusual Baby Jesus and a hostile audience. Friends meet up in the aftermath of a tragedy to celebrate new life at The Chocolate Refuge. An oilman's wife waits patiently for her husband's return, but is growing tired of their unpredictable life. And as George clears out his dead son's flat, sympathy for him shifts.

Five a Day is a collection of finely crafted short stories and flash fiction by Colette Coen — winner of the Waterstones' Crime in the City Short Story Competition 2012. The stories, often told in the first person, range from the autobiographical title story about eating fruit (or not) in the 1970s, to an old woman talking to her son about their Christmas plans.

Colette Coen's third short story collection - the title story explores faith and visiting the body parts of saints.

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Forgotten Dreams is the first print collection of Colette Coen’s work, bringing together material previously published in magazines and online. In the title story, Johnny bets his future on a horse race, while Sissy and Alec take a chance online in ‘DateNight’ and ‘Pictures on a Wall’. Nostalgia for a 1970s childhood is evoked in ’Five and Day’ and ‘The Empty Pillowcase’, while modern concerns feature in ‘Brightly Coloured Jewels’ and ‘WhatsAppening’. There is a dash of crime in ‘Platform Souls’, and a fairy tale, ‘Crooked’, where the beautiful princess is taken into the woods to be treated for scoliosis.
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Many of these stories have appeared in print, in various magazines, and some are also in Colette's Kindle collections, 'The Chocolate Refuge', 'Five a Day' and 'St Antony's Tongue'.

A judge at the Writing Magazine described ‘Lost’ as ‘a delight to read: it's chatty, colloquial, self-deprecating, digressional and entertaining … Colette's skill in managing the shift between humour and sadness makes for a tale that is compassionate and funny without a hint of sentimentality.’