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A Farewell Party with a dark twist! By Ruby Speechley
A Farewell Party with a dark twist! The idea for my new novel Guilty, came from an old school friend, Lucy Fassett, who held a farewell party to celebrate her life with family and friends seven years ago. She died of bowel cancer a few weeks later aged just 48. (And I...
Nobody’s Wife Playlist: The meanings behind each song
Famous Blue Raincoat – Leonard Cohen This song is crucial, because it kickstarted the entire novel. I wrote a short story based on it years ago, and then decided to expand it and it turned into Nobody’s Wife. It even gave me the book’s title. Most pertinent lines:...
The song that was the starting point for Nobody’s Wife: A blog by Laura Pearson
When I was in my early twenties, Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen was my favourite song. I’m forty-four now, and it still is. Back then, I was doing an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University, and I wrote a short story titled After His Body Was Burned,...
Introducing the Trenwith Collection by Rosie Clarke
The Trenwith Collection: an Upstairs/Downstairs series by Rosie Clarke The Trenwith sagas are a collection of books centred around a big country house, each one connected to the family that live there but with different heroes/heroines. The lead story is Sarah and...
On Raising Identical Twins with Saskia Sarginson
Identical by Saskia Sarginson is a brand new psychological thriller, out today 👯♀️ Get your copy here for 99p! My first novel was about identical twins, and now my ninth also has identical twin protagonists. So, you could be forgiven for asking if I’m just a little...
Female Doctors in 1930’s Britain with Lizzie Lane
A New Doctor at Orchard Cottage Hospital by bestselling saga author Lizzie Lane is out today! Get your copy here 📖🧡 A New Doctor at the Orchard Cottage Hospital is set in the thirties. Back then and despite victory in securing the right to vote women were still...
Come Fly With Me: My Research So Far…
My research so far… When I decided I wanted to start writing a brand new series I was looking to do something a bit different. I’d just watched RFDS season 1 which is a drama series based on the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia and it got me thinking about the...
Cold water dipping: The inspiration behind The Affair by Claire Allan
Stepping into the ice-cold waters surrounding Donegal in the North West of Ireland in March is not for the faint-hearted, but it is worth it. In 2022 amid a stressful year of parenting and work, coupled with moving house and sliding deeper into menopause, it was...
Patricia McBride on the Lily Baker Series
The next two books in the Lily Baker series, The Air Raid Girls and The Blackout Girls, are out today! Get your copies here 📖 The winds of war have enveloped the world, and Lily Baker and her friend Bronwyn find themselves caught in its relentless grip. Initially...
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