The Brenda Line

It’s early evening in a middle-of-nowhere town when Karen walks into a call centre to begin her first night shift as the youngest Samaritan in the country.
She’s decided she needs to help people, and maybe write a best-selling novel in the process, but what she hadn’t expected was Anne: her elderly shift partner and the evening’s resident ‘Brenda’…
Inspired by real-life events in their mother’s teenage life, as well as the lesser-known history of the Samaritans in the 1970s and ’80s, The Brenda Line is a story about women, love and listening.