Coming soon: The Things We Were Warned About A trilogy of interconnected tales, drawn from half-remembered folklore, village cautions and the quiet rules passed down at hearth and bedside. Each story follows ordinary people, who chose to listen (or not), when faced with old warnings about love, loss and what's waits beyond the safe edge of the world. Moving from candle-lit kitchens, to liminal crossroads at dawn, the trilogy explores why such rules endure, what they cost and how tenderness exists even in the presence of fear. These stories are about restraint as an act of love, courage as a form of listening and the fragile, luminous hope that survives when warnings are not discarded, but are understood and broken regardless. With grateful thanks to my literary circle, "TCM", who provide inspiration, intrigue, investigative insight and unasked for critique!
After The Warmest Promise of Morning became a success , I found myself in a peculiar bind. My books were being read aloud in parlours by people who had never spoken to me and my words were being cited by clergy who misunderstood them, and worse, who sanitised them. At the same time, letters began to arrive from overseas. Readers in a different, louder country wrote things like, “Your heroines hesitate, and it makes me feel seen," and, “Thank you for letting love be difficult.” One letter came from a small publisher across the ocean in Logres who didn’t ask me to soften anything. They asked me to write more honestly. The letter was the first thing I packed. I booked passage on the SS Auroral Grace , a grand but slightly old-fashioned ocean liner with sweeping staircases, a string quartet and a chapel tucked away awkwardly between the smoking room and the library. I travelled second class on purpose. ...