Saturday 20 August 2011

Final part of An Ordinary Gift

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The issue of Woman's Weekly containing the final part of An Ordinary Gift is now on sale!








Ely museum

In this episode Clare visits Ely museum (housed in the 13th century gaol),



learns about 16th century witchcraft ...




and finally understands her 'ordinary gift'.
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Friday 12 August 2011

Ely serial - part three

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Part Three of An Ordinary Gift is now in bookshops and supermarkets. I've really loved writing my 'Ely' serial and getting the atmosphere of this island town into the story (no, really, it honestly was an island until the Fens were drained in the 17th Century - hence the name, "Isle of Eels") .

Amongst the things Clare comes across in this week's episode are a plaque to the Wisbech Martyrs

and a cannon presented to the people of Ely by Queen Victoria. [Note: very nice of her, but Clare and I can't help wondering what QV thought the people of Ely would do with it!]






Oh, and a priest hole with old, old, memories...


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Thursday 11 August 2011

RNA Blog

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Conference
If anyone wonders what goes into organising the Romantic Novelists' Association annual conference, pop over to the RNA blog where I am being interviewed this week.

Mind you, the conference seems a very long time ago now!
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Sunday 7 August 2011

An Ordinary Gift - part two

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Part Two of An Ordinary Gift is out now!


In this episode, Clare visits Ely cathedral, meets some choristers and looks out of her window at a garden.



None of which is as it sounds.

Except for the cathedral.
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Tuesday 2 August 2011

Warning - VERY cute cats photo!

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Brotherly love

My cats are quite ridiculously photogenic - and also remarkably cute at times. Being brothers who have never lived apart, Archer and Merlin often curl up together, but this was a particularly sweet pose last night.

All together now... Ahhhhh.


[PS: I'm blogging today over at Historical Romance UK]
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