For the Time Being

This is a novel about the discovery of age. For the Time Being heralds changed ownership for upmarket care home Grantham Glade.

After Making Old Bones, For the Time Being offers more insights and observations about the residents, their families and staff. In those busy corridors, flights of fancy, journeys of discovery, the gentle rolling of the day-to-day or, from time to time, the ache of grief make up the fabric of care now that the Baby Boom has become the Elder Epoch. Springtime sees the burgeoning of business for the owners and some of the staff with an uplift in the spirits of residents who have made or have been made to regard Grantham Glade their home.

In the beginning of this new year, under its very new, very corporate mantle, Grantham Glade has been startled by a fate that is possibly more difficult to manage than death when it is discovered that someone is has gone missing…

Amanda Given spent a peripatetic childhood in England and Northern Ireland before her family moved to Tasmania when she was a teenager. She studied English, Speech and Drama at university and was employed as a teacher and social worker while studying for post-graduate law and administration qualifications, holding subsequent roles in business management, property development, university administration and counselling organisations. Early short stories were published in magazines and anthologies. Amanda was a founding member of Redress Press.

For The Time Being is the sequel to Amanda’s first novel, Making Old Bones, which was published in 2020.