Charlotte Betts

I was first attracted to The Pearl of Penang by the gorgeous cover and the lush setting but then was quickly drawn into the story.

Earlier this year I was green with envy when I heard author Clare Flynn was embarking upon a four month round-the-world cruise. A prolific writer, I was curious to see how the experience might fire her writing imagination and this is what happened.

The end of a decade feels different from simply the end of a year, doesn’t it? Not everything that has happened in those ten years will have been happy but this is a useful time to reflect upon all the things you’ve achieved. 

Meet Me in Bombay – a poignant and heart-breaking story of two lovers torn apart by the Great War against a richly imagined setting of colonial Bombay.

London, 1666. Elizabeth ‘Bird’ Carpenter has a wonderful singing voice, and music is her chief passion. When her father persuades her to marry horse-dealer Christopher Knepp, she suspects she is marrying beneath her station, but nothing prepares her for the reality of life with Knepp. Her father has betrayed her trust, for Knepp cares only for…