Inspiration for The Italian Garden

‘A really lovely story that will stay with me for a long time.’ NetGalley reviewer One of my favourite childhood books was The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The idea of a lost garden intrigued me and, many years later, I’ve loved writing The Italian Garden, my own secret garden story. The idea for the book …

Read more

The Post Office in the Great War

I first became interested in how the postal service operated during the Great War when I came into possession of a handful of letters written by my grandfather to my grandmother in 1918, soon after they were married.