tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20964733032476004002024-03-06T20:17:15.948+11:00Historical Belles and BeausWe are authors of historical fiction and we welcome you to our blog.AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.comBlogger425125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-18656567816465944002022-09-12T08:25:00.002+10:002022-09-12T08:25:17.382+10:00The Soldier's Daughter released!<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPh7z9r5Sy48KjdkG1DYItAvcAJTgwvDBNmCNVnGGzYUH7jE-ltLR_Kb2kbTaDlIRBzgkx7PLrBb8Bcre5WZp7QwMKXKob0bVtgEJH6a9ERHkqxXgSit_cwsme5F_tI0jiwkIlZB3Ao_awgujLGDKhCKOlZfSJd4lAV4xE24eE5IHhn-9dnnM/s2048/305272057_413480427484138_3816836541993268545_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPh7z9r5Sy48KjdkG1DYItAvcAJTgwvDBNmCNVnGGzYUH7jE-ltLR_Kb2kbTaDlIRBzgkx7PLrBb8Bcre5WZp7QwMKXKob0bVtgEJH6a9ERHkqxXgSit_cwsme5F_tI0jiwkIlZB3Ao_awgujLGDKhCKOlZfSJd4lAV4xE24eE5IHhn-9dnnM/s320/305272057_413480427484138_3816836541993268545_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6.75pt 0cm 0cm;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-left: -2.25pt; margin-right: -2.25pt; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm; width: 450pt;" valign="top" width="600"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm 13.5pt 6.75pt;" valign="top"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">In <strong><i>The Soldier’s Daughter</i></strong>, Evie lives close to the made-up village of Lylston, which I located north of the real market town of Bingley and set between the higher villages of Micklethwaite and East Morton, leading up to the Ilkley Moor area. </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Like many towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bingley prospered during the </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=d7ebff4477&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Industrial Revolution</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">. The Bingley section of the </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=2bebdea0a5&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Leeds and Liverpool Canal</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> was completed in 1774, linking the town with </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=eb5529df6f&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Skipton</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">, and </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=0ea8eae5d4&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Bradford</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> via the </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=e698d4da4b&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Bradford Canal</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">. The canal passes through the town centre and ascends the side of the valley via the </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=18444e48f5&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Bingley Five Rise</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> and </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://boldwoodbooks.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d723a383099c0efdd02c56930&id=55284ae5d3&e=3bdbe5560b" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Bingley Three Rise Locks</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">. Several woollen and worsted mills were built and people migrated from the surrounding countryside to work in them. Alexander’s mill is located in the valley between the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the River Aire.</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><img alt="Map
Description automatically generated" border="0" height="306" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/C6a7W3L7DTlMwlTVjljW8UyJpROxzbQBogM-zMZ7-ZwG_lvkRKPWE_F91md54Ao2HpFb67URD_o4yAUYCiLx2tDGTMxHNwZKoGzyfoXMCodocVDOtM5dPf__JrVu9m6ue7pf-w7FXX29XCYgXgkKf-8j0LKEoh24_tY6_FKMPbltrG-icIc-cHGEoSskha75T_xVbA" style="border-width: 0in; height: auto; outline: none;" width="343" /></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">This map is what I used to set Lylston Village, Bellingham Hall and Alexander’s mill in comparison to where Bingley is situated. Evie’s home (and Mr Lund’s farm) is just north of Lylston village.</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><img border="0" height="181" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/O2LGXV0WBFc9nLz9YvlED9dc8P7R_UeMIH4_u7GkdoIFhZuXGX8TwnO65Y9eYvy5GeDo8Ak2jyPUEf96HLaj9UhC9kpTJ5pPQ8w6PkpXN1SbR9IdJswmwotpoOLiil2l9LrSlruW-nhEOSPHwO_pVDJTotCtZu-sYOLGPQYHmKO-T7Yz6eL040buVhq4ryY_PVOOAw" style="border-width: 0in; height: auto; outline: none;" width="264" /></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">A riding track Evie would have used over the moors.</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><img alt="A picture containing grass, sky, outdoor, field
Description automatically generated" border="0" height="190" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/ETRMHtKC5fgQtlP6gVIBrW2mjVVD5zNBGqoVJh-ff3FrZRPhPAKpRzzDDmqM0Xhke_8gmTwTHfQ2563kXkvr8GQI9gwGOJbjfzcyvw6IEYfIk5tnjRQBYUxTnwarHcGWmVd5BE2j2eXTFf6AZ0ivYwlJvWf9G0lI_FuhcZHFTEMT03OwsvIwQUlj1-VB5nzhZK8jFQ" style="border-width: 0in; height: auto; outline: none;" width="346" /></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">A view from the moors overlooking the valley. Something Evie would have seen when she left her home.</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><img border="0" height="228" id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/QI_XyPOUOuqFX-086RSaIDK1h6TbxStkOO3-KEdmjGaYPGnouIHd2oYCjyZwYV8e7mEkew09rZqoFwC6kMUFWz11ddx5SPVKZd0rg6DFcGta75KCzRlUpiNntBZcV6FVS8R_kg2cRZLKKZB5hUoJD6KDbXf0H0avojFzdHebkfxILbNpIubgoA4R_IuPxGEqOH6eKA" style="border-width: 0in; height: auto; outline: none;" width="623" /></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">A glimpse of Bingley in the valley.</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">In Victorian times, Bingley was a hive of industry and a main route through the Aire Valley. Below are two photos I used as inspiration for when Evie is in the town, especially when she secretly meets Hal down the lane beside the pub and Alexander sees her but she denies it when he confronts her.</span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; margin: 7.5pt 0cm; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"> <img alt="A horse and buggy on a street
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But Evie is struggling. With her dearest mother gone, Yorkshire with its cold, damp countryside and strict societal rules makes Evie feel suffocated and alone.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Her friendship with Sophie Bellingham, the gently reared daughter of a wealthy rail baron, is Evie’s only comfort. Until the arrival of local cotton mill owner, Alexander Lucas.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Newly returned from America, it is expected Alexander will marry and finally make England his home. And Sophie with her family connections and polite manners is the obvious choice.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But when Alexander meets Evie, a simmering passion ignites between them. Evie, with her rebellious spirit is like no other woman Alex has ever met, but to reject Sophie for Evie would cause a scandal and devastate everyone Evie loves.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Evie knows she must do her duty. But in doing so faces the unbearable future of being without the man she loves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;">Available now on Amazon: <a href="http://getbook.at/thesoldiersdaughter">http://getbook.at/thesoldiersdaughter</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-52922781635671089772022-07-28T21:00:00.000+10:002022-07-28T21:00:00.165+10:00Fantastic Review TO ENTICE A SPY a novella of intrigue and romance<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jpFqp-L0EfN19Voc9eVr-ixmW3xDnynXwtaFCdFH9u3t2xTYACBXKmofEZhKoRELL8XxSBSUMP6L8k4htWGUehB-lEY0IHmmQynkeQKva6No_GuV8aPCRI_L92x8Z1eI5LcTyKk4M-g8b62uqxBLC31njYG4idyq3DQHA7pciTcR1SfQIdq8k_pD/s750/ToEnticeaSpy_w15339_750.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jpFqp-L0EfN19Voc9eVr-ixmW3xDnynXwtaFCdFH9u3t2xTYACBXKmofEZhKoRELL8XxSBSUMP6L8k4htWGUehB-lEY0IHmmQynkeQKva6No_GuV8aPCRI_L92x8Z1eI5LcTyKk4M-g8b62uqxBLC31njYG4idyq3DQHA7pciTcR1SfQIdq8k_pD/s320/ToEnticeaSpy_w15339_750.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Buy </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Entice-Spy-Diane-Scott-Lewis-ebook/dp/B09D9ZCRKX" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1pt dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: none; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">A Riveting Page Turner</span></strong><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border: none; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 3.75pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Set in the time of the French Revolution, To Entice a Spy is cleverly written from the English point of view. 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The tautly written story is driven by love, loss, trust, betrayal, family ties, and the inner strength one must summon to face adversity created by both human fallibility and fate. The story moves at a comfortable pace with flawed, but believable characters who drive the plot. Readers find themselves rooting for the protagonists from the beginning to the end of the tale. The characters evoke strong emotions in readers right from page one. This reader found herself wanting to hug Eseld and Robert on one page and throttle them on the next. Lewis creates a huge conflict with a backstory to keep readers turning the pages to see how it all turns out. Part romance, part mystery, part thriller, and a part second chance at love; To Entice a Spy will capture the imagination of readers who enjoy a passionate love story fueled by human frailty, intrigue, and suspense. This terrific book has more than earned the five-star rating this reader has given it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">~Susie Black~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Diane lives in Western Pennsylvania with her husband and one naughty dachshund. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">To find out more about her novels, check out her Amazon page:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=diane+scott+lewis&i=stripbooks&crid=8DBNJPJT8B1H&sprefix=diane+scott%2Cstripbooks%2C78&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_11">DianeScottLewis</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Diane Scott Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05724042672923318289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-51301132798035655912022-07-27T11:05:00.001+10:002022-07-27T11:05:53.771+10:00Lady Faith Takes a Leap is now available in Portugues. <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWyaIipyGUI3F05xnzxsIJYeZm1EemV0SBJpJdR95TcEZbqLNUo2zAdcb2QTStUwOBWymkXrN40n23tBcQPRChNpu48VUBMYddKAavWdPA7fmmJvdbgnp2aY2sCOquJ3myD45EFSOvWrCSdCle-IAKz1fMEmmzuTlVKSC3JZ3bIRqDlrkpi2PKtyQkDA/s526/Lady%20Faith%20in%20Portuguese.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWyaIipyGUI3F05xnzxsIJYeZm1EemV0SBJpJdR95TcEZbqLNUo2zAdcb2QTStUwOBWymkXrN40n23tBcQPRChNpu48VUBMYddKAavWdPA7fmmJvdbgnp2aY2sCOquJ3myD45EFSOvWrCSdCle-IAKz1fMEmmzuTlVKSC3JZ3bIRqDlrkpi2PKtyQkDA/s320/Lady%20Faith%20in%20Portuguese.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Maggi Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15430261880092452319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-59348191514348730132022-07-25T11:27:00.005+10:002022-07-25T11:27:25.444+10:0099c Sale!<p> </p><h5>The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl is on sale for 99c on Amazon USA.<br /><o:p></o:p></h5><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“The writing is vivid and gripping!”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Annabelle can’t hide forever from the wealthy Hartley family, but can she give up the baby she loves? </span></b><span lang="EN-US">#historicalfiction #historicalromance #Victorianromance #bestseller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;">Amazon: <a href="http://getbook.at/OrphanPeacockShawl">http://getbook.at/OrphanPeacockShawl</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZn2BdpRsBhgjPBPzQOUA8oLYVHL3IUEd3mO9gTFzkkbHG7plPY-Xd00Vb0K5ZlDxbNj_JbP0s8cWL7MlEOf6xByEcWenD5N2Yih8oNfOWUv38uQx16sPGmwNZDT-95XDSvdw7lBXHoura6vfQAPab6yCQjtfCncs0U7rZuTLKyBSYU6QFqTnBK98-/s1200/BookBrushImage-2022-7-22-10-3537.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZn2BdpRsBhgjPBPzQOUA8oLYVHL3IUEd3mO9gTFzkkbHG7plPY-Xd00Vb0K5ZlDxbNj_JbP0s8cWL7MlEOf6xByEcWenD5N2Yih8oNfOWUv38uQx16sPGmwNZDT-95XDSvdw7lBXHoura6vfQAPab6yCQjtfCncs0U7rZuTLKyBSYU6QFqTnBK98-/w640-h334/BookBrushImage-2022-7-22-10-3537.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><br /></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-90289337949498761702022-01-28T08:13:00.003+11:002022-01-28T08:13:57.295+11:00Historical diaries and journals<p> </p><div class="et_post_meta_wrapper" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></span></div><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">I collect Victorian diaries and journals, written mainly by women who have arrived in Australia after leaving England, but also by women born in colonial Australia. These diaries are brilliant when I’m writing a story set in colonial Australia and they give me an insight to how they lived and what was happening in the world around them at that time. From their personal entries, we can learn what was important to them, their daily routine, their views and opinions. They can also lift some of those myths we in the modern world tend to think as true.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Below are some pages from a selected few of my diaries, which may show why I adore them so much.</p><p class="p1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">This page is from The Letters of Rachel Henning. A genteel lady who left England and ventured to Colonial Australia to join her brother who was farming out there. It’s a fascinating account of her life and full of details about those times.</p><p class="p1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-129966 aligncenter" height="300" loading="lazy" src="https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Picture-4-225x300.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" width="225" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">I also have a few diaries, or collections of letters written during the First World War, which is another favourite era for me to write.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-129967 aligncenter" height="225" loading="lazy" src="https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Picture-5-300x225.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Below is an example from the book, Unknown Warriors, The Letters of Kate Luard, RRC and BAR Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Kate Luard is one of those unsung heroines of the war. A dedicated nursing sister who went to the front line to give aid to the wounded. Her letters are fascinating, harrowing, tragic but filled with such devotion and commitment.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-129968 aligncenter" height="300" loading="lazy" src="https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Picture-6-226x300.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" width="226" /></p><p class="p1" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Below is a page from The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. A lovely diary of a naturalist’s world in 1906 written by English lady, Edith Holden.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-129969 aligncenter" height="300" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px" src="https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Picture-7-226x300.jpg" srcset="https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Picture-7-226x300.jpg 226w, https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Picture-7.jpg 440w" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" width="226" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Get your copy of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The Orphan in the Peacock</em> shawl below:</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">🇬🇧 <a href="https://amzn.to/3rRa15H" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee7556; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">https://amzn.to/3rRa15H</a></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">🇺🇸 <a href="https://amzn.to/3IFfymy" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee7556; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">https://amzn.to/3IFfymy</a></p></div>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-4807036308511108542021-11-04T15:10:00.005+11:002021-11-04T15:10:59.634+11:00New Book 2022! <p> <b style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Orphan in the Peacock Shawl </span></b><b style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Preorder! 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I set a previous novel in this town but knew I wanted to place another one there, this one a spy story. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I planned a visit to Truro, but family medical conditions prevented it and I never got the chance to return to Cornwall.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiHhd0mrc-zPF6WkKFQKZI75GjdpZg0uoPIBF36VhBAptKmX0X72e_6UtuB1X7wr4VM5FsbSFECzpszgcgNwza98RMOrSS0jeFooG8g2kwdGLs-74PewvoB0mZ_6riQtdJlRkNoQe0gP4/s1314/Truo+Street.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="1314" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiHhd0mrc-zPF6WkKFQKZI75GjdpZg0uoPIBF36VhBAptKmX0X72e_6UtuB1X7wr4VM5FsbSFECzpszgcgNwza98RMOrSS0jeFooG8g2kwdGLs-74PewvoB0mZ_6riQtdJlRkNoQe0gP4/w204-h204/Truo+Street.jpg" title="Truro street with St. Mary's in background." width="204" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Truro street with St. Mary's Cathedral in the background</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here is my novel's blurb:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Widowed
Countess Eseld Trehearne seeks revenge for the brutal death of her female
companion during a Paris riot. On her return to England, Eseld delves into
espionage to defeat the French rebels. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-size: medium; text-indent: 0.5in;">Baron Robert
Penhale, Eseld’s childhood love, rejoins the Secret Services after his wife’s
death. He’s determined to protect England from the revolution terrorizing
France.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2228; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Pierre, a</span><span style="color: #1d2228;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228;">ruthless French spy, fights for the common man
while disguised as an English aristocrat. He’s intent on revenge against those
who oppose him.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;">With the spy stalking
them and Robert in fear for Eseld's life, the fate of the couple verges on
disaster.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Real life spymaster, William Wickham, makes a brief<b> </b>appearance in my novel<b>. </b>Wickham was a British civil servant and politician. He founded the British foreign secret service during the French Revolution. I have my hero Robert working with Wickham.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWhwgSY4fm0raOTxVM-ZI2gs3hEGBVsLrPvPcjC8haU_h_mjRgN63JR1uO2QxaQ3nLaup8uR9LmPVFZ-w6nbSeuX_Cz8XBbEhKFZm9TOaOH3tOM4_NMyBTLJlsdNIbhUQ_KaiBm9xdjs/s409/330px-William_Wickham_%25281761-1840%2529_Chief_Secretary_Ireland.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="330" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWhwgSY4fm0raOTxVM-ZI2gs3hEGBVsLrPvPcjC8haU_h_mjRgN63JR1uO2QxaQ3nLaup8uR9LmPVFZ-w6nbSeuX_Cz8XBbEhKFZm9TOaOH3tOM4_NMyBTLJlsdNIbhUQ_KaiBm9xdjs/w233-h289/330px-William_Wickham_%25281761-1840%2529_Chief_Secretary_Ireland.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium;">Can Eseld and Robert rekindle their love, or will rules of 'protocol' (he a mere baron and she a countess) keep them apart? Each must find their own way through heartbreak and the risk of murder that hangs over them. Is Pierre right in his demand for equal rights? Or is he just out to kill aristocrats, and seduce Eseld in the process? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will love be enough to mend the differences between Robert and Eseld? She wants no man to command her.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Review from Novels Alive: "</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Josefin Sans"; font-size: 18px;">The dastardly villain ramps up the suspense and is exposed during a thrilling conclusion. This sweet Regency (Georgian, actually) romance ties up all the loose ends effectively. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3016V4D" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d99b6d; font-family: "Josefin Sans"; font-size: 18px; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To Entice a Spy</em></strong></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Josefin Sans"; font-size: 18px;"> is a delightful light romance with a dose of suspense to keep it interesting."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more on my books, visit my website: <a href="http://www.dianescottlewis.org">http://www.dianescottlewis.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Diane lives in Western Pennsylvania with her husband and one naughty dachshund.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Diane Scott Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05724042672923318289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-25785389608012045982021-09-03T06:22:00.000+10:002021-09-03T06:22:08.070+10:00<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Never Dance with a Marquess has a Crowned Heart review from InD'tale Magazine! </span></h1><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivWKx5aXxtafXkUGWgFrHdV90d_y4JtAeeOb4W2e-Zz0UiVh8UJ1CNAywLdsPClH9sVSKnuxYDZ-ysPIuXL6Xbgq8F7-obpP9G3UM9oqOfR4XrfsigZMjARqSFj7XBGMQM7IdV6gsxaGaW/s2048/Never-Dance-with-a-Marquess-web+%25282020_07_14+06_11_32+UTC%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivWKx5aXxtafXkUGWgFrHdV90d_y4JtAeeOb4W2e-Zz0UiVh8UJ1CNAywLdsPClH9sVSKnuxYDZ-ysPIuXL6Xbgq8F7-obpP9G3UM9oqOfR4XrfsigZMjARqSFj7XBGMQM7IdV6gsxaGaW/s320/Never-Dance-with-a-Marquess-web+%25282020_07_14+06_11_32+UTC%2529.jpg" width="213" /></a><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256" height="157" src="https://maggiandersenauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/YPage_60-6.jpg" width="155" /></div><p style="text-align: center;">“Never Dance With a Marquess” </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>takes the reader on a journey </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>through the psyches of both </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>Nicholas and Carrie. The </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>characters of Carrie’s teenaged </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>brother and sister are endearing </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>although their antics could easily </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>prove to be fateful to them or </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>others. Some scenes are slow, but </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>picks up the pace deeper into the </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>story. One gets emotionally </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>involved as Simon Leeming tries </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>to usurp Nicholas’ authority, and </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>Simon shows his true character. </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>All the characters are three </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>dimensional and easily relatable. </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>The world building is excellently </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>executed, and one finds </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>themselves immersed in the </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>1800s, living with the mores of </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>the times. A truly outstanding tale </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>of romance between an unlikely </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>hero and heroine! Ms. Andersen </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>delivers a beautifully orchestrated </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>story destined for the ages!</p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p>Belinda Wilson</p></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span></p><p></p>Maggi Andersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15430261880092452319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-22598273685266611682021-09-02T16:33:00.004+10:002021-09-02T16:33:53.778+10:00Silver Medal Award!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So happy that The Market Stall Girl won a silver medal at the USA Readers' Favorite Book Reviews and Award Contest!! </span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6mur" data-offset-key="jp57-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="jp57-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="jp57-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Market Stall Girl (Book 1)</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6mur" data-offset-key="cmh3n-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cmh3n-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cmh3n-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Woman from Beaumont Farm (Book 2) </span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6mur" data-offset-key="840ff-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="840ff-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="840ff-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Will Beth and Noah find the happiness they wish for or will overwhelming events break them apart? </span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6mur" data-offset-key="1il0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1il0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl">http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcOnTtmAPP1g7mr4LsSPoC7aNL_MWyMP1lK_Na_4gA8GUZGPa2qgQu4yGDWemEGevBYHWksipICQlsmqnbuMSU7LX97oZGw7N7snnug1PTvIYqdEHwOkMeWDmony0X-snjHf-pEYJews/s144/silver-shiny-web.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="144" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZcOnTtmAPP1g7mr4LsSPoC7aNL_MWyMP1lK_Na_4gA8GUZGPa2qgQu4yGDWemEGevBYHWksipICQlsmqnbuMSU7LX97oZGw7N7snnug1PTvIYqdEHwOkMeWDmony0X-snjHf-pEYJews/s0/silver-shiny-web.png" width="144" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiot9mkFTtzd0dl-t5eBBfl7KIweAPiHQj8Ro4Y1qgPyaIqlkrT3cN7beNO_MMj9r8jh4kzBisLLjHwCqSDs9cOUlTWGlR4BTSINjGzdxlkrsOqieww-vxyEL9FRHRYe0qDDaC5pqskY3Y/s403/Screenshot+2021-09-02+080507.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="224" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiot9mkFTtzd0dl-t5eBBfl7KIweAPiHQj8Ro4Y1qgPyaIqlkrT3cN7beNO_MMj9r8jh4kzBisLLjHwCqSDs9cOUlTWGlR4BTSINjGzdxlkrsOqieww-vxyEL9FRHRYe0qDDaC5pqskY3Y/s320/Screenshot+2021-09-02+080507.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhSlgeJoweErIq6LKUZ-5vWkT9lLmuFOFIzccCEjssnOPNf3B-ezHi7h8oCcRtnPIhP7XBQOSwKDs3mK7GgDA3LNqlY0tpgqztG2WtV6ctdppYaiosLvyDwL7DJeMPj6ghrvEdRH3p0hQ/s2048/9671.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhSlgeJoweErIq6LKUZ-5vWkT9lLmuFOFIzccCEjssnOPNf3B-ezHi7h8oCcRtnPIhP7XBQOSwKDs3mK7GgDA3LNqlY0tpgqztG2WtV6ctdppYaiosLvyDwL7DJeMPj6ghrvEdRH3p0hQ/s320/9671.tif" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></div></div>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-15651871517148177662021-08-13T11:37:00.004+10:002021-08-13T11:37:19.860+10:0099p/c Sale Aurora's Pride<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sale alert! My historical saga, Aurora’s Pride is only 99p/c - 12-19th August!</span></p><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="87g7e" data-offset-key="bng5p-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bng5p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bng5p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">She went in search of the truth and it wasn’t what she was expecting.</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="87g7e" data-offset-key="32slr-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="32slr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="32slr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Amazon </span><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://mybook.to/AurorasPride">http://mybook.to/AurorasPride</a></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="32slr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="32slr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsPvGDjrLYiBUTUO_8472kizgYR0X8obTNtU9F7Ci0tcVaw8Sdf_9S9iuqBdLzXEMC0Qrwts-HDk4wcNV43ja6MbCSAtRC_xePlLulSvC6JrIq7LnIE7CdFc4Sc_kpBxfU6-Il5bGbeM/s1080/BookBrushImage-2021-8-11-12-1753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsPvGDjrLYiBUTUO_8472kizgYR0X8obTNtU9F7Ci0tcVaw8Sdf_9S9iuqBdLzXEMC0Qrwts-HDk4wcNV43ja6MbCSAtRC_xePlLulSvC6JrIq7LnIE7CdFc4Sc_kpBxfU6-Il5bGbeM/w400-h400/BookBrushImage-2021-8-11-12-1753.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-62680759114295791092021-07-26T09:40:00.001+10:002021-07-26T09:40:03.914+10:00The Market Stall Girl Amazon UK 99p July only. <p> <b style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Market Stall Girl Amazon UK 99p July only.</span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText2">Will Beth and Noah find the happiness they wish for or will overwhelming events break them apart?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;">Amazon: <a href="http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl</span></b></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYIYx__UquKn0hbK1riRI314a5HNC2d7UXpD5nlGVaYy5eriPbly1xSWDZcmM6w5yavqMX2Ates_zz6dh2YH8h8CPz8JBYKvozEung1kO_F7WENzCCHJm6v0YUXL6KyYVali1ZtV7W148/s1080/BookBrushImage-2021-7-2-8-918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYIYx__UquKn0hbK1riRI314a5HNC2d7UXpD5nlGVaYy5eriPbly1xSWDZcmM6w5yavqMX2Ates_zz6dh2YH8h8CPz8JBYKvozEung1kO_F7WENzCCHJm6v0YUXL6KyYVali1ZtV7W148/w400-h400/BookBrushImage-2021-7-2-8-918.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><br /></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-62266114968095794812021-05-11T07:52:00.006+10:002021-05-11T07:52:35.813+10:00Voting Open!<p> <span data-offset-key="dlh80-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">The Market Stall Girl has been nominated for a Rone Award by Ind'Tale Magazine. </span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="dlh80-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Voting is just this week. So if you enjoyed the story and think it deserves a vote, please go to this link. 🥰 (you have to register to vote) Thank you!! </span></span></p><p><span class="py34i1dx" style="background-color: white; color: var(--blue-link); font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="dlh80-1-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://indtale.com/polls/historical-victorian-20th-century-rone-2021">https://indtale.com/polls/historical-victorian-20th-century-rone-2021</a></span></span><span data-offset-key="dlh80-2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="dlh80-2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span data-offset-key="dlh80-2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEyB5xqY83ZnJYG457HvXPLuaACID7fAV72bgM5hICvwpo-tP1Wl4tk-7HJAgSbg2VSJiXTQeG6ouSnjt2RqzrXgCp4nO9Rc-8-fOFxAARfeM0kEMMjTAZxPG7mtUJP98KcMgGcwq2FI/s791/Screenshot+2021-01-29+145723.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="507" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEyB5xqY83ZnJYG457HvXPLuaACID7fAV72bgM5hICvwpo-tP1Wl4tk-7HJAgSbg2VSJiXTQeG6ouSnjt2RqzrXgCp4nO9Rc-8-fOFxAARfeM0kEMMjTAZxPG7mtUJP98KcMgGcwq2FI/w410-h640/Screenshot+2021-01-29+145723.png" width="410" /></a></div><br /><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-53865938549725296512021-03-23T08:52:00.002+11:002021-03-23T08:52:12.937+11:0099p/c Sale!<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sale 99p/c March
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isabelle’s Choice <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will the choices
she’s made ruin her? Will she find the happiness she’s searching for?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amazon </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="file:///C:/Users/AnneMarie/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Word/myBook.to/IsabellesChoice">myBook.to/IsabellesChoice</a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tenVY1ekSlRGQ5hsfU_yyiiia6oWPKTjVV5NZAIr4SvGGHz9xiSDsO8RS7W8k2GxJgp4rKwi-sxUNAZVllBixt6FUUVuNVprZ3uu678fpBZUZwFPLp82QLQLxiMycVJ7LyPY8OUEb_0/s1200/BookBrushImage-2021-3-18-15-481.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tenVY1ekSlRGQ5hsfU_yyiiia6oWPKTjVV5NZAIr4SvGGHz9xiSDsO8RS7W8k2GxJgp4rKwi-sxUNAZVllBixt6FUUVuNVprZ3uu678fpBZUZwFPLp82QLQLxiMycVJ7LyPY8OUEb_0/w640-h334/BookBrushImage-2021-3-18-15-481.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><br /></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-62560830043053330782020-11-20T10:35:00.003+11:002020-11-20T10:35:49.824+11:00New Release: The Tobacconist's Wife!<p> </p><p> <span style="background: white; color: #38444d; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">"The Tobacconist's Wife is a very engaging
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misery and break from the conventions of society? Or will the clutches of her
abusive husband confine her forever?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#historicalsaga #Victoriansaga #Yorkshire
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amazon: <a href="https://relinks.me/B08G9N75NX">https://relinks.me/B08G9N75NX</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv879g1sP2DCk-C89I4Rg7fFuMN2vF0wMKZ9okPK43zUp4nK_UhpAeyvZrqm_TqjcUA5_ymbBUbklWJBsVkHDR27EgDOArgmxuwh-dTPXiVWCTkZZ9-pOWzta-ZML34VFsaGOEkWQIBwYi/s1200/Tobacconist.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="209" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv879g1sP2DCk-C89I4Rg7fFuMN2vF0wMKZ9okPK43zUp4nK_UhpAeyvZrqm_TqjcUA5_ymbBUbklWJBsVkHDR27EgDOArgmxuwh-dTPXiVWCTkZZ9-pOWzta-ZML34VFsaGOEkWQIBwYi/w400-h209/Tobacconist.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-77794024834037395492020-11-16T23:45:00.063+11:002020-11-16T23:45:00.506+11:00The Mysticism of Cornwall - The Cheesewring<p> I had never written a historical fantasy before, but time travel has always interested me. My novel, <i>Beyond the Fall</i>, was my first fantasy, sending a woman from the 21st century back to the 18th c. after she explores a neglected graveyard in Cornwall, England.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YzssqsgRSQ7KDXm60TA_OMIlP10hFFezuw-LEE5LnXzHjsYFjDnGrRNY8qcG1krLDpt0M_s2Df6wqUxNkElzduXW49U5uG7iya23rkBennc9ViHL_6FS3i79kJafv_GHTQugvnuS7RA/s1680/BTF+Book+and+Kindle.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4YzssqsgRSQ7KDXm60TA_OMIlP10hFFezuw-LEE5LnXzHjsYFjDnGrRNY8qcG1krLDpt0M_s2Df6wqUxNkElzduXW49U5uG7iya23rkBennc9ViHL_6FS3i79kJafv_GHTQugvnuS7RA/s320/BTF+Book+and+Kindle.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Cornwall became an obsession of mine. I've set several books there and read about the mysteries attached to this portion of England. My husband I traveled to North Cornwall for the first time to
research one of my historical novels. On a misty, foggy day (how appropriate) we walked on
the Bodmin Moor. The first sign we encountered was a tiny one that said Cheesewring
with an arrow. In those dark ages days before the internet was so readily
available, we scratched our heads, wondering what this could be. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Traipsing the mysterious moor over scrubby grass, glared at
by disturbed sheep, I saw a strange rock formation in the distance and insisted
my husband take my picture with it. Only when we arrived home, and I researched
in a book I had, did I find that this granite tor had been the Cheesewring.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5CL7kxl5PsworXG829NvjHMSvGMJ3y0Rt9Tnn1gyJj_f6cV7bDWffxEnpFInadVhqCDH1FCBfLVZUZbYeD8pt_tXa_GuPWaYn9W12vpGZfvQQaGhyphenhyphenn_foEJLsGOW2zvJ1biJ3eecM1Q/s840/CHEESERING+WITH+AUTHOR_crop_crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="699" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5CL7kxl5PsworXG829NvjHMSvGMJ3y0Rt9Tnn1gyJj_f6cV7bDWffxEnpFInadVhqCDH1FCBfLVZUZbYeD8pt_tXa_GuPWaYn9W12vpGZfvQQaGhyphenhyphenn_foEJLsGOW2zvJ1biJ3eecM1Q/s320/CHEESERING+WITH+AUTHOR_crop_crop.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Located on the southern edge of the Bodmin Moor, the
Cheesewring, or in Cornish, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Keuswask</i>,
is a geological formation on Stowe’s Hill formed by centuries of weathering—harsh
winds and rain. The name is derived from the piled slabs that resemble a cheese
press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thirty-two feet in height, the tor is top-heavy, the fifth
and sixth rocks of immense size and thickness. Four lower rocks support them,
all perfectly irregular, the towering formation having no lateral support as it
clings to the steep hill. It’s said the formation spewed from the earth, and
crystallized as tubular granite.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In local legend,
the Cheesewring is the result of a contest between a man and a giant. The
giants who dwelled in the Cornish caves were angry when Christianity was first
introduced to the British Islands. The Saints had invaded their land, and the
largest giant Uther was sent to chase them out. The frail Saint Tue proposed a
rock throwing contest. If he won, the giants had to convert to Christianity. If
Uther won, the Saints would leave Cornwall.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Uther easily
threw a small rock to the top of Stowe’s Hill. Tue prayed for assistance. He
picked up a huge slab, and found it miraculously light. They continued
throwing, stacking the stones in perfect piles. When the score was twelve each,
Uther tossed a thirteenth, but it rolled down the hill. Tue picked up his
fallen stone, and as he lifted it an angel appeared to carry the slab to the
top of the rock pile. At seeing this, Uther conceded, and most of the giants
converted to Christianity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In a book on
Arthurian Legend, it’s said that the slabs turn and twist at certain times of
the year. Or when the tor hears a cock crow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RMbWUyaBZF1nVwV6ROppvbF0PVRYWIQU9j0ScUR82s4AE8A-cXXfvNf-zHEf7NnM_aB4tQZG9oYjWZOUfM8wf8x94I5iKsAoyCUK2xSbW7SCQVzSf-dK1Wk6Z-xPXbbCozkT4hq72nY/s1024/quarry-1024x768%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_RMbWUyaBZF1nVwV6ROppvbF0PVRYWIQU9j0ScUR82s4AE8A-cXXfvNf-zHEf7NnM_aB4tQZG9oYjWZOUfM8wf8x94I5iKsAoyCUK2xSbW7SCQVzSf-dK1Wk6Z-xPXbbCozkT4hq72nY/s320/quarry-1024x768%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Located adjacent
to the Cheesewring Quarry and surrounded by other granite formations, this
landmark was threatened with destruction in the late nineteenth century by the
proximity of blasting operations, but was saved as a result of local activism.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> Later, to indulge in my time travel fantasy, I wrote <i>Beyond the Fall.</i></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Blurb: In Cornwall, England, Tamara researches her ancestors. Among
gravestones she tumbles back to 1789 in the midst of grain riots. Will she fall
for the secretive farmer, Colum, or struggle to return to her own time? <i>Highly Recommended ~ History and Women<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">To purchase<i> Beyond the Fall</i> click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Fall-Diane-Scott-Lewis-ebook/dp/B07HDFRLT4">HERE</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">For more on Diane
Scott Lewis and her Cornish novels:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://www.dianescottlewis.org">http://www.dianescottlewis.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Diane Scott Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05724042672923318289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-40772932913290677762020-11-11T10:22:00.003+11:002020-11-11T10:22:31.807+11:00Remembrance Day<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today is 11th November. 102 years ago WWI ended on this day. The defining era of WWI is a fascination to me. I have researched this turbulent time for years and I'm always learning new things about it. One of my bucket list goals was to visit the battlefields of Belgium. Walking amongst the graves, the old trenches, visiting the water-filled bomb craters, going to museums, and spending time in beautiful Ypres was inspiring. How could you not be moved? My own ancestors fought and died in WWI. I had five great+ uncles all brothers from one family fight. Two died - Arthur and Alfred Ellis. They were the inspiration behind the Jackson brothers in my book The Woman from Beaumont Farm. My Ellis uncles live on in those pages.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The few books I've written set in WWI are homage to all those wonderful Allied men and women who served their countries for our freedom. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must never forget their sacrifices. They are true heroes.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFGkUz1eGWCah7ktVqqGykHex9mP1UELEoreVi617xdrx46LawgYreUHmcmqvZLtopp2JPgZUknan7jkyUapyVE5jQl-f6YJANANOofEqUUmdmpPuZPICWjf6UmX_2PvdIfZ97NuWgRks/s960/43951769_10156972096958694_8579334827461836800_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFGkUz1eGWCah7ktVqqGykHex9mP1UELEoreVi617xdrx46LawgYreUHmcmqvZLtopp2JPgZUknan7jkyUapyVE5jQl-f6YJANANOofEqUUmdmpPuZPICWjf6UmX_2PvdIfZ97NuWgRks/s320/43951769_10156972096958694_8579334827461836800_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">The Market Stall Girl is up for 'cover of the week' contest at InD'Tale Magazine. Would love it if you could vote for it. Thank you!! 🥰</span></span></p><p><a href="https://indtale.com/polls/cr%C3%A9me-de-la-cover-contest " target="_blank"><span class="py34i1dx" style="background-color: white; color: var(--blue-link); font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="488sc-1-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">https://indtale.com/polls/cr%C3%A9me-de-la-cover-contest</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="488sc-2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXrclYsZxr1HICTgxaMhmuX1ziutrLfqqru9s-gTvpgUo7sPYIO002ZXa_w-MiqHD9L0yC5o-erdaL0ICsbIujd_aYB5LkCsuydbAgN0mqb4sfFzhfTJ9CdwebH3kQVbm3P7hgJQ9OeUs/s900/The+Market+Stall+Girl+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXrclYsZxr1HICTgxaMhmuX1ziutrLfqqru9s-gTvpgUo7sPYIO002ZXa_w-MiqHD9L0yC5o-erdaL0ICsbIujd_aYB5LkCsuydbAgN0mqb4sfFzhfTJ9CdwebH3kQVbm3P7hgJQ9OeUs/s320/The+Market+Stall+Girl+small.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-77928335574261280152020-07-29T08:46:00.000+10:002020-07-29T08:46:18.782+10:00Audio version of Beneath a Stormy Sky!<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Audio copies arrived from my publisher!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Beneath a Stormy Sky<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Surviving a shipwreck was the least of her problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">#Australianfiction #historicalfiction #kindleunlimited #paperback #colonial #pioneer #audio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Amazon: </span><b><span style="color: #184c6c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://mybook.to/BeneathaStormySky" target="_blank">mybook.to/BeneathaStormySky</a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBs_fdLKgbXpZY4FHuIsnW60q6ud4h1cc9U7KMb4XxSbUAnLhLY6REX0kmO8U-TJK2sIQStKO67K-4vFuGmXC8lJGvTTrxNipb4Rv5GDUtReVaIBbhfQlYY8k18_z3s_W9hMfuXYvcQVQ/s960/112430993_2649439065278634_8018306594280065695_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBs_fdLKgbXpZY4FHuIsnW60q6ud4h1cc9U7KMb4XxSbUAnLhLY6REX0kmO8U-TJK2sIQStKO67K-4vFuGmXC8lJGvTTrxNipb4Rv5GDUtReVaIBbhfQlYY8k18_z3s_W9hMfuXYvcQVQ/s320/112430993_2649439065278634_8018306594280065695_n.jpg" /></a></div><b><br /></b><p></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-19849682119263061562020-07-23T15:33:00.000+10:002020-07-23T15:33:27.928+10:00The Market Stall Girl video<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw7O-7bH-bTQy5Z6a2UTPFS75tLFJ_KfTwCqS68xvrqfIVGDg3jY_JR_0K_x9ZG85NWP-hKOz0Y5aoEsS3F6A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Market Stall Girl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Noah find the happiness they wish for or will overwhelming events break them
apart?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><a href="http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-74037521963063824672020-07-13T09:34:00.002+10:002020-07-13T09:34:46.924+10:00New Release August 1st!<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;">I'm so excited to share the news that my next historical saga is The Market Stall Girl, which will be released in Kindle ebook and paperback August 1st.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1913 Yorkshire, England.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Beth Beaumont enjoys her life as a rhubarb farmer’s daughter in West Yorkshire. Working on the family’s stall selling the fruit and vegetables grown in their own fields gives her a sense of purpose and is healthier than working in a dangerous cotton mill.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Although not thinking of marriage, when Beth meets Noah Jackson, a village miner, she is suddenly very aware of Noah as a man who could change her mind. The summer brings the two closer and their feelings deepen while Noah studies hard to fulfill his dreams of becoming a teacher and securing a better life than his parents endure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But, a disaster at the coal mine changes lives forever. Noah’s plans are shattered. His love for Beth is put at risk, and he fears they can never find happiness together.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">However, another man wants Beth. Louis Melville, the wealthy son of a local gentry family, is acutely aware of Beth’s beauty and he wants her for himself. At first, he is willing to offer marriage, but when Beth turns him down in favour of Noah, Melville, furious to be denied, wreaks revenge with devastating consequences.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Will Beth and Noah find the happiness they wish for or will overwhelming events break them apart?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">#Edwardian #historicalsaga #familysaga #Wakefield #Yorkshire @amazonkindle</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style", serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl">http://mybook.to/TheMarketStallGirl</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYGcwA3DLwQUOx6H9tGaiDR7wJRPvU6tFqhmUCiJ-AJNQ_mpNMICMkNWkzSv2a-pXCg68LBliYLURqvntJuLa4cpqN_9az8tCLrUM4IyjjORxjU315aayDVfAetupCerVkH4XFjouKxiw/s1518/Market+Girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="1518" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYGcwA3DLwQUOx6H9tGaiDR7wJRPvU6tFqhmUCiJ-AJNQ_mpNMICMkNWkzSv2a-pXCg68LBliYLURqvntJuLa4cpqN_9az8tCLrUM4IyjjORxjU315aayDVfAetupCerVkH4XFjouKxiw/w500-h250/Market+Girl.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><br /></p>AnneMarie Brearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12913093174855808979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-71928120211310436532020-06-29T07:00:00.000+10:002020-06-29T07:00:05.218+10:00My BooksFive of my favourite books have now been taken by Canelo who will sell them as they are very good at that. Here are the details:<br />
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Lily Thorpe is a spirited, ambitious fisherman’s daughter, desperate to escape the poverty of her Lakeland home.<br />
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Kitty Little </h4>
After fleeing from a marriage arranged by her ambitious mother, Katherine throws herself into an acting career, but a scandal threatens to wreck everything she has worked for.<br />
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Alena Townsen wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life with her childhood friend Rob, the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner.<br />
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It's 1942 and three young women join the Women's Timber Corps, eager to do their bit for the war effort. Buxom and bouncy, red-headed Lou is newly married and sees her training in Cornwall as a way of staying near her sailor husband.<br />
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Daisy is devastated when her lover, Percy, abandons her. All alone, Daisy is forced by her own mother to give up her baby son for adoption – shortly before she throws Daisy out.<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>People sometimes ask me: "Where do you get your ideas from?" In the case of my Master Cook and the Maiden, it came from a real historical event.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>In the early 14th century, a nun called Joan of Leeds "crafted a dummy... to mislead...She had no shame in procuring its burial in a sacred space" according to the Archbishop of York, William Melton.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>By means of the dummy, she faked her own death and fled the convent of Saint Clement by York. Later gossip placed her in the city of Beverley and she was ordered to return to the monastic life by her Archbishop.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>Joan's absconding from the convent is not the only one recorded. In 1301 another nun, called Cecily, stripped off her habit, disguised herself and rode off to live with one Gregory de Thornton. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>Clearly, the relgious life was not for everyone. </i></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>In the case of my heroine Alfwen, she is not yet a nun. She fakes her death by drowning, a fate that could happen all too easily to laundresses who had to deal with heavy, waterlogged sheets and clothes in their local rivers. She gambles that the church authorities will consider her body swept away and so makes her escape.</i></span><br />
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Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096473303247600400.post-23462116553270058502020-04-24T07:00:00.000+10:002020-04-24T07:00:01.467+10:00The Castlefield CollectorFor this book I chatted with Bella Tweedale, May Stothard, Bessie Jones, Alice Brook and Irene Baxter who all gave up hours of their time to talk to me about life in the mill during the war, plus Dolly Fitton who was 92 at the time and very generously allowed me to name the character in my book after her, as it seemed so appropriate. There is no better way of getting the feel of an industry, occupation or area than to talk to the people who have lived it. I asked them about their routine and how they acquired their skills? Where did they ache after a long day, and what were the problems and dangers in their work?<br />
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Dolly Fitton started in the mill as a doffer at 14, knocking off the filled bobbins, or cops as they were called, replacing them with empty ones. Her real name was Mary Ann but was more affectionately known to her family and friends as Dolly, because she was fairly small. ‘I were the scrapings up off t’mill floor,’ she told me, chortling with glee. ‘Eeh, it were marvellous in t’mill. You could hear them coming a mile off up from the mill. Clattering on the setts,’ she said.<br />
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If I’d asked her what she’d had for her dinner she might not have been able to tell me but she recalled the spinning mill vividly. She took me through her day, how the cotton was spun, fleas that were a nuisance, the heat in the mill, and the constant danger of fire. Where and how they had their dinner, and the tricks they used to play on each other in the mill, one being to roll a spindle on the greasy floor and send you flying. She also spoke about how she’d sing in a band as Dolores, and would climb down a drainpipe with her dance frock over her arm, which her mother made for her, so that she could secretly attend. She also mentioned having met Gracie Fields, such a treat.<br />
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When first published it sold remarkable well and has done so many times since, and received some good comments. Now published by Canelo.<br />
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<b>Where there’s muck, there’s mettle</b>…<br />
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Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman.<br />
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Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his heart should be, Dolly’s mam is in hock up to her ears and in dire need of assistance. But when Jack offers to wipe the slate clean, Dolly just can’t bring herself to trust him.<br />
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Instead, she takes him on at his own game and in the process endangers everything she holds most dear as a revelation about the past rocks the very foundations of her world.<br />
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This is an enchanting story of love and endurance perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Kitty Neale. Previously published as <i>Watch for the Talleyman</i>.<br />
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Praise for '<i>The Castlefield Collector</i> '<br />
A story which in some ways could be written about today as easily as the 1920s' 5* Reader review<br />
'This is my first novel by Freda and it will definitely not be the last' 5* Reader review '<br />
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book from start to finish' 5* Reader review<br />
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<b>Chapter One</b><br />
1929<br />
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Dolly Tomkins put her arms about her mother’s frail shoulders and hugged her tight. ‘It’ll be all right Mam, you’ll see. Dad’ll walk through the door any minute with his wage packet in his hand.’<br />
‘Aye, course he will, chuck.’<br />
They both knew this to be wishful thinking. When had Calvin Tomkins ever put the needs of his family before a sure fire certainty, which was how he viewed any bet, whether on the dogs, the horses, or two raindrops running down a window. And since it was a Friday and pay day at the mill, his pocket would be full of brass, burning a hole in his pocket. Most women hereabouts would be waiting with their open hand held out to collect wages as each member of the family came home on pay day. Maisie certainly did that with the three children she still had left at home: Willy, Dolly and Aggie, but had learned that it was a pointless occupation to wait for Calvin’s pay packet. He wouldn’t give a single thought to his long-suffering wife and daughters, not for a moment.<br />
Dolly studied her mother’s face more closely as she bent to cut the cardboard to fit, and slid it into the sole of her boot. The lines seemed to be etched deeper than ever. Dark rings lay like purple bruises beneath soft grey eyes, which had once shone with hope and laughter, and her too-thin shoulders were slumped with weariness. She looked what she was, a woman beaten down by life, and by a husband who thought nothing of stealing the last halfpenny from her purse in order to feed his habit, his addiction, despite the family already being on the brink of starvation.<br />
Maisie handed the boots to her younger daughter with a rare smile. ‘There y’are love, see how that feels.’
Dolly slid her feet inside and agreed they were just fine, making no mention of how the boots pinched her toes since she’d grown quite a lot recently. They’d been Aggie’s long before they’d come to her, and probably Maisie’s before that, and their numerous patches had themselves been patched, over and over again.<br />
Mending her daughters’ footwear was a task carried out each and every Friday in order to give the boots a fresh lease of life. Dolly wore clogs throughout the long working week, but in the evenings and at weekends when she wasn’t at the mill, she liked to make a show of dressing up. Worse, it’d rained for days and Dolly’s small feet were frozen to the marrow. She’d paid a visit to Edna Crawshaw’s corner shop and begged a bit of stiff cardboard off her, whole boxes being at a premium. This piece had Brooke Bond Tea stamped all over it but that didn’t trouble Dolly; the card was thick and strong and would keep out the wet for a while, which was the only consideration that mattered.<br />
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Having involved myself in a great deal of research about evacuees, I thought it would be good to show their love for Blackpool and the people who cared for them. This idea came from a memory of my grandparents running a boarding house in the centre of Blackpool during the war, largely occupied by evacuees, Polish aircrew, soldiers taking a break, and many of their wives and children coming to visit their husbands. They apparently had a very busy and fascinating time. I learned from my father that he’d been trained as a shoe repairer when he was young before the war, working in Lytham St Annes. He remembered collecting and delivering shoes for George Formby, a lovely entertainer who lived nearby. He also used to do a lot of fishing, and knowing exactly where to do this, he would charge people to show them or provide them with some of the fish he’d caught.<br />
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Here they are seated on the right hand side of the first row. My mother worked for his parents for a while, being his girlfriend. Once the war broke out they quickly married. She moved back to live with her own mother in Accrington and worked in the textile industry throughout the war, largely producing parachutes. My father was only twenty and had to report for infantry training at Squires Gate in Blackpool. That only lasted about six weeks although he would have preferred it to have been much longer. But the tragedy of the defeat of the Army in France and the evacuation of Dunkirk, speeded things up. He was then moved on to Manchester, Bury, Scotland and various other places throughout the war. Writing details of his service he said:<br />
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<i>‘It was about this time that the Blitz on Manchester started, and the 6th Battalion was called in to give help to the Civil Defence and the Police. Along with other Army units this was a terrible time for the people of Manchester, as it was for other Cities in the country and we did our best to help. Our own barracks did not escape, and if not on duty we took shelter.’ </i><br />
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After the war I recall as a toddler often visiting my grandparents and watching a performance of brightly lit puppets where a curtain was strung across part of the dining room. They told me that had often taken place during the war. We spent many happy days in Blackpool, my favourite visits being the Tower Ballroom, the Circus, Winter Gardens and riding a donkey on the beach. Always great fun for a young child. I remember my grandmother coming home from shopping one day to find a dusty mess of plaster and rubble on the staircase, my Grandfather having knocked open the entrance to the loft and planned to put in another bedroom. I used this incident and one or two others in the story, which was great fun. Eventually my grandparents sold the property and moved to Burnley, but my memories of this part of my family’s life, and my own memories post war, proved to be very much an inspiration as a setting for Peace in My Heart. The owners in charge of the boarding house in this story were, of course, not my grandparents but two sisters who cared for Joanne and Megan as evacuees. But would they stay with them or move back home?<br />
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The war is over and Evie Talbert eagerly awaits the return of her three children from their evacuated homes. But her carefree daughters and son are barely recognisable – their education has been disrupted, the siblings split up, and the effect on them has been life-changing. Her son has developed serious behavioural problems and with her daughters, there’s jealousy and a nervous disorder that cannot be explained…<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Evie’s husband also has problems. Having returned from being in action, he suffers nightmares and fits of rage. He’s no longer the gentle, quiet man Evie married.
Peace may finally be here, but Evie’s family is in shreds. Now she must rebuild a loving home to achieve the happiness she’s always dreamed of… </i></span><br />
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