by Nia Beynon | Jul 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
I qualified as a nurse from the Mater Hospital, Dublin. A lifetime ago. I was eighteen when I began, a naive, green-as-grass young woman whose eyes were soon opened. Over the next three years, I was thrown into the deep end of ward nursing. Often, as second, or...
by Nia Beynon | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
My latest book The Family Next Door centres on the friendship between next-door neighbours Lucy and Eileen. Both women are very different; Eileen, who is in her fifties is guarded and keeps herself to herself whereas her younger, glamorous neighbour Lucy appears to be...
by Nia Beynon | Jul 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
I think I’d be in prison now if it wasn’t for my female friends. So many crimes nipped in the bud by a quick, ‘Do you really want to go through with that?’ Seriously though, sometimes when all you want to do is vent, rage, not have to explain a source of pain or be...
by Nia Beynon | Jul 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I was twenty-five, I first stepped foot on a canal boat, and I fell in love. The actual visit took place on my brother’s wedding day. It was mid-August, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky as we gathered in Stratford-upon-Avon for the nuptials. The...
by Nia Beynon | Jul 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Killing at Smugglers Cove takes place over a three-week holiday in July 1923 when Iris Woodmore travels to Devon for her father’s wedding, accompanied by her friends, Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale. Percy takes a room in a boarding house in Dawlish. In...
