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Growing up with both English and Italian family, I’ve always been fascinated by how each side of my family, living in different countries, do all sorts of things so differently. For me, at home, my two cultures have always been blended into one, but it’s fun to look...

Holding out for a Greek hero… You know how it usually goes. You read the book, you fall so in love with the leading man and then they make the film and… eww, who did they choose to play your book boyfriend?! He’s not right at all! In your head he was taller, fitter,...

Arthurian legends have fascinated us for centuries, beginning in medieval literature, and adapting to their current form in modern-day novels, films and art. My latest novel, Excalibur, is a tale of Arthur which takes place in a crumbling Britain. A country under a...

Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls is out today! Click to get a copy 📖 My research for my Clarks Factory Girls stories took me to my local Quaker Meeting House. As the Clark family are Quakers, it was important to look at their beliefs and practices in order to make...

Phoebe Dashwood, the New Forest vet in my Puddleduck Farm series, has a Dalmatian called Roxie, who features quite a lot in Happy Ever After At Puddleduck Farm. She’s also in the previous book in the series, Living The Dream at Puddleduck Farm. So I thought it was...

Red versus Grey Enid Blyton, who comprised a good deal of my reading material, wrote about red squirrels, which led me to believe that all squirrels were red. Many of my books as a child were written in similar times, before the grey squirrel outcompeted and brought...

Life Begins… It’s funny how midlife creeps up on you. One minute you’re a young looking 20 something feeling rather annoyed at being asked for ID at the bar, the next you’d do anything to have that happen one last time. When I was younger, the idea of being 40 or...

A different kind of book research My new book, It Had to be You, is about Libby, who grew up in a fostering family. One foster carer who reviewed it commented on my ‘great research’. This made me smile. The research undertaken for the fostering aspect of this book...