It is the 1950s so divorce and co-habitation before marriage is still taboo. The fact that David and Germayne are not technicallly married when they first move to the village sets the other residents against them. There are norms that…

Is there a book you’d love to see made into a film? How did you celebrate publication day? Vieux Lyon More about the Author Marie also contributes to the best selling Miss Moonshine’s Emporium anthologies together with eight author friends…

This is a fantastic saga that gripped me from page 1 and didn’t let me go until the end. It’s full of the trials and tribulations of family life, especially in the early years of the 20th century, and it’s…

It took over a decade of planning, learning, and tweaking, but here we are. The first chapter was written on a beach in Hawaii (pen and paper), when I was sixteen, moments after I set down the final Harry Potter…

One of the main plotlines in this book is Flappy discovering that there are passions within herself she didn’t know existed and they were so funny to read about. From her initial surprise, to her deciding that she would resist…

And what of Marc? Bitter, jealous Imelda makes a shocking revelation that forces them all to confront their pasts, admit mistakes, and face the truths that have shaped their lives. With four fierce, opinionated women in one family, will they…

7. I like to end my Q&As with the same question so here we go. During all the Q&As and interviews you’ve done what question have you not been asked that you wish had been asked – and what’s the…

Until they went missing all of a sudden in 1972. No explanations, no obvious clues, nothing to put the minds of the women they left behind at rest. The author very cleverly weaves their disappearance into another narrative, twenty years…

As Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumoured to be involved in more sinister night-time activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of…