by Nia Beynon | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Creating a playlist for my novels has become something of a tradition now. If you haven’t listened to the Missing Pieces and Nobody’s Wife playlists, you’re missing out! This time, I had a headstart because I included some songs in the book, on the playlists Jess’s...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Embarking on a novel about a woman with breast cancer when I’d just finished being treated for breast cancer was a risky move. I hoped it would be cathartic, and it was, on the whole. But it also dredged a lot of stuff up. It reminded me that this could have gone a...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear Reader, When I was thirty-five, and five months pregnant with my second child, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. No one expects to have to face cancer at that age; no one expects their body to turn on them just when they are busy creating new life. I waited,...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
‘Libraries are our cultural lifeblood. Without them authors wouldn’t have been inspired – or in many cases been given shelter as children to lose themselves in a book; readers couldn’t discover new worlds and new writers in a safe and free...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
The strangest thing happened to me when I was writing Finding Family at the Cornish Cove. In the book, Gemma, the main character, is running her late Mum’s café, doing her proud she hopes, and when she is offered the opportunity to expand the business into the...