by jenna | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by jenna | Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by jenna | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nia Beynon | Jun 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
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:...
by Nia Beynon | Jun 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Claire | Jun 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
