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A couple of years ago, I was invited to appear at the Yeovil Literary Festival to talk about my novels and books in general. At one event, I chaired a discussion between three of us fiction writers – Jill Mansell, Stella Newman, and me – and it was a real blast. The conversational format is… Read more »

  The Winter Secret spent 4 weeks in the top ten of The Sunday Times paperback fiction bestseller lists,  which was just about the best Christmas present I could have asked for. When we first started publishing the books at the beginning of December, back in 2012, I was told to get the publishers to change… Read more »

   The Winter Secret is published today, and I think it looks beautiful. I’m so proud of it! It’s been a difficult year, and writing this book was not easy. But I completely lost myself in the story and, in the end, it provided a wonderful escape to another place where I could walk through… Read more »

“I never wanted to tell you this story,” he’d told me. “Because it’s not a nice story.” I think the optician knew I’d be haunted by it. But I think he also knew that his was a tale that needed to be told. So here he was now, watching me night after night, waiting for… Read more »

The new book is due to be published on 1st December and I’m itching to get my hands on a finished copy. Even though I have a beautiful proof – see my photo of it above – it’s not the same. I can still admire the rather gorgeous ice-blue foil, though. Effects on covers are something… Read more »

At last, it’s here. It’s been a while in the building, and I’m afraid my old one was sadly neglected in the meantime – in fact, it hasn’t been updated since The Winter Folly, which is somewhat shaming. But here it is, new and bright and, I hope, of interest to anyone who’s read and… Read more »