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The Unnamed Women
Posted on 09/04/2026
Image is of Queen Victoria’s wedding veil. My latest book The Lacemaker’s Secret which is due out later this year, is about a family of lacemakers in the mid-nineteenth c…
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Publication Day
Posted on 03/02/2025
It is hard to explain what publication day feels like. In some ways all the big things have already happened – I have managed, against the odds, to get a book deal. I hav…
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On the subject of bonnets.
Posted on 30/11/2023
After a period of not writing much due to the demands of a job and the rigours of coping with a parent with Alzheimer’s, I am now back on my perch. This is a somewhat sag…
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