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The French Mafia | Gillian Godden’s Research for Forever Diamond
The term Milieu is used as a short for Le Milieu criminel (criminal environment) or Le Milieu interlope (illegal environment). It is inferred as native historical french criminal society and it refers to the set of criminal figures operating in the French metropolitan...
Unlikely Friendships: A blog by Caroline Finnerty
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...
Inspiration for The Start of Something Wonderful
I can’t imagine anyone who reads The Start of Something Wonderful being left in any doubt as to how much I love the Lake District. A stunning part of the UK, I’ve holidayed there since childhood. My memories are mainly of lakeside picnics and splashing in the water....
The Importance of Female Friendship: A blog by Janet Hoggarth
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...
The inspiration behind New Beginnings at Wildflower Lock by Hannah Lynn
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 wedding...
Fate and France ✨
Maybe it was ‘Meant to Be’ I’m not a great believer in fate – but I do sometimes wonder what made me utter the words: ‘Shall we just… move to France?’ to my husband one November evening in 2007. It was the first time either of us had raised the possibility of living...
Seaside holidays in the 1920s: A blog by Michelle Salter
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...
The inspiration behind The Girl from Portofino by Siobhan Daiko
When I’d finished writing The Girl from Venice, I knew I wanted to write another book about a girl from the Italian Resistance. The twins, Gina and Adele, are the fictional daughters of a Portofino fisherman. But they are inspired by the many brave Italian women who...
The Inspiration for Ever After Street ✨ by Jaimie Admans
The inspiration for Ever After Street all started with The Cinderella Shop, the dress shop where Sadie works in A Midnight Kiss, and the thought of their unique guarantee – that you’ll find love while wearing one of their dresses or get your money back – and the...
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