Charting a woman's challenging, long struggle for independence and creative recognition against a background of growing up in the 60's, Liverpool, art college, marriage, supporting a painter husband, and children. This poetic autobiographical novel follows the experiences and illusions of a new way of life.

Elizabeth Ashworth won the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize for her poetry collection, A New Confusion. Her poems have appeared in Transatlantic Review, The New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Outposts. Her short prose has appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post and Cambrensis and she won second prize in the H.E. Bates short story competition. She has also won the NUJ Award for best weekly paper feature writer and the Selectors Prize at The Royal Cambrian Friends Exhibition for her paintings. She lives in North Wales.

So I Kissed her Little Sister is her first novel.

"The story of a woman's pilgrimage and quest.The words often breathe pure poetry ...and suggest a writer alive to pain, delight and beauty. The book is both witty and harrowing, with a spirit of place that stays with the reader long after the book is closed..." Stevie Davies

"fascinating pilgrimage .... a beautifully crafted gem of a novel" Margaret Kitchen The Daily Post