We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Maggie Gallagher's book Invisible Scars has not long been on sale and she said she can finally try to find closure.

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The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. The book is about the first 30 years of my life which I wasn't in control of at that time, there were outside obstacles that I had to try and overcome. When we were children it was a lovely place to grow up with Moss Bank Park, and although I didn't want to be near that house, I have now moved back to Johnson Fold and live near the Doffcocker Lodge. The happiness of my family, the rebuilding of our lives, and the hope that one day the bitter family feud will be over, once and for all. The fight to be able to put the past behind me and find that inner peace and happiness I had strived for all those years?Their first published stepsheet on CopperKnob is Drizabone from October 2007, with their most recent stepsheet of Second-hand Emotion in October 2023. And then I just expected my book, I wrote 250,000 words, and I expected part of them words to be thrown away and it doesn't seem like they have thrown any of it away because the book is massive. I just hope I've given Johnson Fold the justice because it's getting a bad reputation at the minute but it's just absolutely lovely. I was unaware of the consequence and the bitter family feud that was developing before my very eyes.

Olympia Publishers | Invisible Scars by Maggie Gallagher

She spent her days writing the book in her spare time whilst using her other time working at the Royal Bolton Hospital. As I grew and became a mother, those earlier dreams were hidden away and I devoted my life and all my pride in raising my children. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. Maggie will also release a new book in the future, this time for children, showing them the history of growing up on the estate in Johnson Fold, like an Enid Blyton-style novel. Speaking about being a debut author, Maggie, 63, said: "The reason I wrote the book was because my childhood was quite traumatic and moving on from there to becoming an adult was even worse.These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. They grew and had families of their own, and the empty nest syndrome was and still is too hard to bear. All the details are in the book and I don't want to give too much away but I wrote quite a lot about the Johnson Fold estate where we were growing up.