Journal

Thank you!

Thank you everyone for such a wonderful launch of FROM A PARIS BALCONY over the past few days. I appreciate your emails, messages on my Facebook page and lovely comments- I will reply when I can! Busy editing book four- in my old jeans, old jumper. It’s funny! I’m in lockdown with it. Will send… Read more

Giveaway of my Paris novels!

In celebration of the release of my third novel, FROM A PARIS BALCONY on October 11th, 2016 with the lovely Lake Union publishing, and to thank my wonderful readers for all their support, I am giving away five bundles of books- signed first edition copies of all three of my Paris novels, wrapped in silk… Read more

Spring Update

While spring declares its first tentative blushes outside, I have been busy, busy, busy! Much travelling- a conference, a writer’s festival, a research trip. Book four is now with the publishers and my study is brimming with gorgeousness. The box of advance copies of FROM A PARIS BALCONY have arrived, along with audio books and… Read more

A True Story…

I want to share a true story with you today, because it resonated with me so much when I heard about it. I can still see the train, shimmering through the cold, foggy winter morning, appearing, ghostlike on the track… The young girl in this photo is Isa. She was the daughter of the family… Read more

Winter writing

As I sit here, writing my fourth novel, snow has left dappled white patches on top of our local mountain. It almost seems as if this is a present, something that is atop everything else, and slightly beyond us, down here in the valley carved out by the river below. It almost suggests that there… Read more

Back from a fascinating research trip for book four. The setting grew on me while I was there- kind of crept up and is lingering with me still. The owners were incredibly generous with their time, stories, kindness and beautiful food, and I have more stories, breath-taking history and mysterious ghost stories than I can… Read more

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