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...
by Nia Beynon | Jul 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by jenna | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nia Beynon | Jul 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nia Beynon | Jun 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by jenna | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
