Cerys receives an unexpected inheritance but there are rules attached, twisted rules that have to be followed if she is to receive it in full . As she settles into her new life, she begins to feel trapped and senses that the villagers, her sister and a man she keeps seeing on a bicycle are constantly watching her. Cerys, desperate to control her own future, decides to try break free but the past is ever present and dictates her fate.
 
Orla Owen's new book, Christ On A Bike, is being published by the award-winning Bluemoose Book.
 
Her writing focuses on the dark and macabre side of family life, the parts that go on behind closed doors.
 
Before she became a writer, she was an actress and drama practitioner, studying Theatre at Bretton Hall College of the Arts.
 
Supporting women in writing is important to her and she was lucky enough to work on a writers’ mentoring scheme, as an assistant to the author Kerry Hudson, at the WoMentoring Project. In 2016 she was picked to be mentored by Sarah Savitt at Virago, and in 2020 she won second place in the Sandstone Press Short fiction competition.
 
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