They say as you grow older time flies and how true that is. I can’t believe we are almost at the end of another year. And what a year it has been. My thanks to all my readers who have enjoyed reading The Runaway Orphans and The Lost Orphan. As you will see in the […]
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So it looks as if we’re heading for a bleak mid-winter. It’s never easy to have to go without things we particularly enjoy and even harder to do without things we take for granted. That’s why it always amazes me when doing my research, to see how resilient people were during WW2. Like many of […]
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This year I have returned to doing talks for WI, various clubs and Church groups. Open Door Partridge Green heard my talk called Are they real People? At Evergreen in Angmering I spoke about My Life as a Nanny and later this year, at the WI in Ferring, I shall be sharing about my writing […]
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2020 looks like it’s going to be a busy year. From 28th February to 1st March I shall be hosting a Writer’s Weekend in Southport, Merseyside in a lovely hotel on Albert Road. It begins Friday evening and ends Sunday lunch time. If you have a cherished dream to be a writer or you need […]
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Got a cherished dream to write and be published? This day will give you practical guidance and encouragement to get started. It’s also for those who have already started but need to know the next step. We’ll take a look at the basic ingredients of a short story and how to tackle an article in […]
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Got a cherished dream to write and be published? This day will give you practical guidance and encouragement to get started. It’s also for those who have already started but need to know the next step. We’ll take a look at the basic ingredients of a short story and how to tackle an article in […]
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Always In My Heart will hit the shelves on June 15th. This is my seventh saga and this time it’s slightly different. It centres around Shirley and Tom who have been evacuated to Angmering, a small village four miles from Worthing. Their mother, Florrie has just been diagnosed with TB and faces a long regime […]
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This is my first book with my new publisher, Pan Macmillan. It is called Blue Moon and is available to order on Amazon. If you buy this from Amazon, please send in a review. I always like to know what you think of a book. You can click the button below to link to the […]
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Hot off the press: My new novel Blue Moon will be published in July 2015. As soon as I get the proofs, I’ll put a picture of the front cover here. Also I am very excited that Pan-macmillan have asked me to write a novella which will hit the shelves next Christmas.Watch Full Movie Online […]
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I have just completed the second draft of my next saga which is called Blue Moon. Just to give you a taster, it’s 1933 and Ruby Bateman works as a chambermaid in Warnes Hotel, Worthing. Her life is ordinary and uneventful until… Ruby had reached room 40 and knocked the door. There was no answer […]
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