by jenna | Jul 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Autumn and Rosie – best friends in The Start of Something Wonderful – meet face-to-face for the first time after twenty-four years of friendship. Their relationship started as penpals aged eleven after their respective English teachers set up a penpal exchange. With...
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 jenna | Jul 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
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 jenna | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
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....
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...
