A blog of three romantic fiction authors: Elizabeth Hanbury, Georgia Hill and Jenna Dawlish
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2010
Does everyone have that special place – or is it just me? Mine is Lyme Regis in Dorset. Going there makes me happy, walking on the famous seawall, The Cobb, makes me feel at peace with the world and leaving gives a tug to the heart that’s painful.
Lyme Regis – ah Lyme Regis! How can [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2010
For those of us who love Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we cannot but help feel sorry for poor Mrs Bennett when she moans she only has daughters and no son to inherit her husbands estate. So, she has to put up with Mr Collins turning her out of her home as soon as Mr [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2010
Want feisty heroines? Smouldering men? A good plot and excellent characterisation all set against an atmospheric background? Try a Mary Stewart novel. Those in charge of commissioning television drama, glutted as it is with Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell, take note.
To feed my current King Arthur obsession, I was given Lady Stewart’s Merlin trilogy as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2009
Puppy Love
Move over Mr. Darcy, I have a new love in my life! He’s a very handsome chap and, just like Darcy, looks rather dapper in his black and white outfit. He also has a cold wet snuffly nose and four enormous paws, which I’m fairly certain Fitzwilliam Darcy didn’t possess.
Some weeks ago we took [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2009
Well, you can’t get much more seductive than the new ten-minute videos from Carte Noire. It’s Jackanory with sex appeal! The Carte Noire Readers features gorgeous hunks Dominic West (from The Wire), Greg Wise (Cranford) and Dan Stevens (Sense & Sensibility) reading favourite literary love scenes from a mix of classic, modern and emerging novels.
The campaign, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2009
I want to tell you a secret.
Come a little closer. Closer still.
That’s it.
Are you listening carefully?
OK, then I’ll begin and tell you about a charming little secret that’s tucked away on the web, and in Bloomsbury and Notting Hill Gate. Not everyone knows of its existence, but those of us that do subscribe avidly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2009
A new book – Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love by Andrew Norman – claims that Jane Austen’s insight into love and romance came not only from her relationship with Tom Lefoy, but from her unfulfilled romance with a clergyman called Samuel Bicknall.
Jane first met Samuel in 1798 when she was 23 and he was a [...]