This is a short story collection with a difference because it is, as the title says, the confessions of a story teller. Paula Williams was for many years a very successful short story writer before she turned to crime as the author of the Much Winchmoor Murder Mysteries and the Neston Parva Mysteries.

She’s written hundreds of stories and sold them all over the world. But the stories in this, her first collection, hold a very special place in her heart because they’ve all been inspired by her family and friends. And sometimes her neighbours - and sometimes the person standing next to her in the supermarket queue. But mostly her family.

These heartwarming short stories are accompanied by the stories behind the stories. The anthology includes the first story she had published, Angels on Oil Drums, with its laugh out loud moments, to one that always makes her cry when she reads it (Waiting for Dad) which was taken so closely from real life that one brother commented that writing must have been ‘money for old rope’. Guess who turned up as the victim in her next murder mystery? (Only joking)

These fifteen stories, all feel good fiction with guaranteed happy endings, are written in Paula’s heartwarming, often funny, always uplifting style. All quick reads, some will, she hopes, puzzle you with a twist in the tale. Some will make you think. Some will make you laugh. And some will make you cry … especially if you happen to be related to her.

So this collection of family tales is her tribute to her long suffering family - as well as an apology.