The Other Daughter
Teaser Tuesday: A Tea Shop and an Excerpt
We have Starbucks. In the 1920s, they had Fuller’s. Fuller’s might not have been quite as ubiquitous as Starbucks (when I was living in London several years ago, there was a cartoon in The Spectator in which a pedestrian seeking directions was advised to pass the Starbucks, turn left at the Starbucks, and it would…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: My Mary Stewart Tribute Book
Now that The Lure of the Moonflower, aka Pink XII, is safely in the hands of my editor, I can finally get back to talking about my next book out: The Other Daughter, which appears July 21. My agent likes to call The Other Daughter “1920s Revenge“. I think of it as my Mary Stewart…
Read MoreBooks, Books, Books
The Lure of the Moonflower, aka Pink XII, is now in the hands of my editor! It was a bittersweet moment, typing the last words of the last ever Pink book this past Friday: There are still revisions to be done, and copyedits, and all the other bits and pieces– but there’s a book. By…
Read MoreTHE OTHER DAUGHTER: New Publication Date
Mark your calendars! The publication date for my next stand alone novel, The Other Daughter, is now July 21, 2015. Here’s the official blurb: Raised by her widowed mother in genteel poverty in the 1920s in an isolated English village, for the past six years Rachel Woodley has been working in France as a nursery…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Those Ubiquitous Vaughns
It has been noted that there is a Cecelia Heatherington-Vaughn in The Other Daughter. Not illogically, the question has been asked: is she one of those Vaughns? Yes. Yes, she is. As always, the Vaughns just won’t keep out of the way. They pop up everywhere. In my Kenya book; in my 1927 book; in…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: THE OTHER DAUGHTER
I haven’t shared much about The Other Daughter with you yet, have I? I’m still deep in the middle of revisions, so the book doesn’t feel entirely like a book yet. That’s the odd thing about revisions– once the draft of the manuscript is done, voila! There’s a book. But then along come revisions, and…
Read MoreTHE OTHER DAUGHTER has a cover!
The Other Daughter, aka the 1927 Book, aka the next stand alone novel, has a cover! Tres snazzy, no? The Other Daughter will be coming your way from St. Martin’s Press on June 2, 2015. Usually, by now I’d have a The Other Daughter page up and running here on the website with description and…
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