![]() If you would like to get in touch, you can also find me on social media (links below) where I mainly talk about books, writing, my garden and my black Labrador, Nelson. I recently received a card all the way from New York from eighty-four-year-old Rita in praise of the story of eighty-four-year-old Eudora and that was my week made. My stories feature families, friendship, grief, love, happiness, singing, loss, betrayal, forgiveness, death, hope, books, joy and plenty more besides, and they invariably include a beloved family pet! My favourite thing about being an author is when readers contact me to let me know that a book has touched them, made them laugh or just served as a companion for a while. ![]() My aim is to write stories which are uplifting and ultimately hopeful as these are the books I love to read. I work to get to know them as well as my own friends and family as I write and allow them to lead the story. I try to reflect this in my own writing and for me, it begins with the characters. My favourite writers are Anne Tyler, Ruth Hogan, David Nicholls, Rachel Joyce, William Boyd, Katherine Heiny and Maggie O’Farrell but I love anything which makes me laugh and cry. I love the quiet calm and the smell of books, old and new. If I’m not writing or reading books, I like nothing more than to lose myself for an hour (or two if I can manage it) in a library or bookshop. This book is particularly special to me as I’ve spent my life around books, from trips to the library with my Mum as a child to my early career as a bookseller on Charing Cross Road and then over ten years in publishing and now as a writer and creative writing teacher. I can’t wait for readers to meet Gertie and Hedy, who are thrown together by the events of the Second World War and who form a book club to support their community through these dark times. My new book, The Air Raid Book Club is my first historical fiction novel and will be published on the 11th of July. My first book, Not Quite Perfect was a Kindle number one bestseller and my most recent featuring octogenarian, Eudora Honeysett was a USA Today bestseller as well as being nominated for the RNA Contemporary Novel Award. I am the author of seven novels and one novella. Thank you for dropping by to visit my Goodreads page. They will need all the strength of their stories and the bonds they’ve formed to see them through to brighter days. But even the best book can only provide a temporary escape, and as the tragic reality of the war hits home, the book club faces unimaginable losses. After all, a good book can do wonders to bolster people’s spirits, even in the most trying times. Together with neighbors and bookstore customers, they hold lively discussions of everything from Winnie the Pooh to Wuthering Heights. When the Blitz begins and bombs whistle overhead, Gertie and Hedy come up with the idea to start an air raid book club. ![]() With the terrible threat of war on the horizon, the world needs people like Gertie Bingham and her bookshop. Willful and fearless, Hedy reminds Gertie of herself at the same age, and shows her that she can’t give up just yet. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named Hedy. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. ![]() Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it’s time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry.
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