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Favourite books about Paris

This is the last of seven daily blogs in which I have tried to give you A Week in Paris, to celebrate the publication of my novel.  Some of you might feel inspired to continue the experience, so I thought that I should use it to share with you some of my favourite books about…
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“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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