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I’m really looking forward to you meeting Odette and Beryl when Virgin Flight is released into the world on 1st December. It’s available to pre-order now on mybook.to/VirginFlight. It was such a joy to write and I was reluctant to let the characters go. In fact, I still miss them. The early reviews coming through…
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On the need for having representation of older lesbians in stories.
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Ordinarily I celebrate writing the words The End on a manuscript and bundling it off to my editors for the ritual shredding. After months of work, to finally get a draft completed is a relief and comes with a sense of pride at the achievement. Yet, this time there is also a sense of unease,…
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Last week it was my birthday, and I had a lot of social events planned – mainly around seeing friends and dancing – all of which had to be cancelled as we picked up Covid. That in itself was disappointing and made me appreciate how much I enjoy spending time with “my people”. Last time…
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Encrypted Hearts will be released on 1st December about two code breakers based at Bletchley Park during WW2. Here is the blurb: Cam Langley, a sharp-witted codebreaker at Bletchley Park, dresses like a man but makes no secret of who she is. Gloria Edwards, eager to escape her domineering father, joins the war effort and…
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In my book group, it was my turn to choose the book this time. Naturally I chose an independent sapphic book, with the intention of trying to encourage my fellow readers to dip their toes into the waters of sapphic fiction. We had a discussion of the last lesfic book they had read, Jane Rule’s…
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…if 64% of us will abandon them within one month of making them? Over the years I have repeatedly vowed to get fitter and lose weight and I’m still only seven pounds lighter than I’ve ever been. Admittedly, post menopause it’s fighting hormones (or lack of them) and the lowering of metabolism, but that doesn’t…
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Whatever your views on monarchy there is little doubt the passing of Queen Elizabeth II signifies the end of an era. For a 96-year-old woman to continue working for her country is phenomenal. She devoted her life to her service, which seemed to be a facet of the war generation who put duty first. When…
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Last week I completed the final edits on my new novel, Of Light and Love, which tells the story of a famous artist, Caro, who loses her muse when her wife dies and she can no longer paint. She has to resort to letting out a room to a younger woman, Laura, who is studying…
EV Bancroft 