“Compelling… an old-fashioned novel that doesn’t ration its pleasures.”
Review of A Gathering Storm, The Independent
From Daphne du Maurier to Mary Wesley, the coves and headlands of Cornwall have provided the setting for some of fiction’s most stirring melodramas. Rachel Hore revisits Camomile Lawn territory with a classic wartime saga tracing the fortunes of an old West Country family swept up in the horrors of the Blitz. When young photographer…
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Romance is not dead
Interview with Rachel Hore, The Independent on Sunday
We have met to discuss [Hore's] fourth novel, A Place of Secrets. Like the others, it is an up-market romance split between interlinked stories set in the present day and the past – in this case, the 18th century. Jude, a valuer for a modern-day London auction house, is called to a remote part of…
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Review of A Gathering Storm from Goodreads
Reader review from Goodreads
When Lucy delves into her father’s past to find out why he was particularly interested in a certain man whose story he was never able to uncover, she meets a woman who holds the answers and peels back the layers of her life and reveals to Lucy hidden truths and a story rich in WWII…
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