The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - 1998

When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon begins to unearth a dark secret … At some point in his life her father had taken on a completely different identity ... in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then who was he! And what had driven him to conceal his real identity? Who was he?


 

Grasshopper - 2000

Clodagh, 19 years old, has been traumatised by the death of her teenage lover in a climbing adventure she feels responsible for instigating. Her uncomprehending parents' response is to send her away to London to undertake a college course she has no interest in. Trapped by isolation and crippling claustrophobia, Clodagh drifts disconnectedly through life in a cousin's basement flat in Maida Vale, her only apparent anchor an increasing fascination with the architecture of the surrounding area. Then she meets the enigmatic Silver, an idealistic young man who finds his own salvation in providing a refuge for other misfits who need to escape their lives. But what Silver offers is more than just another experiment in communal living. He shows Clodagh another way of looking at the world. Literally. For Silver and his friends, the streets are in the sky.