‘The Girl with the Silver Clasp’ is on its way!

It’s always exciting when a new book is on its way …

As spring begins to appear, my second book for Orion, ‘The Girl with the Silver Clasp’, is going through the final stages of becoming a real book, for publication day in July 2021. It’s already up for review on NetGalley, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that readers love the story as much as I loved writing it.

This time the story is set in a tiny private harbour a short distance from St Ives in the Cornwall of the 1920s. It’s centred around three very different women, all of whom have been changed by the trauma of the First World War, and who find themselves having to overcome their differences to save a crumbling family mansion and the future of the harbour’s tight-knit community, as well as to fulfil their dreams.

St Ives

I loved doing the research for this book! Sadly, COVID-19 prevented me from returning to St Ives last summer, but I was incredibly lucky to have researched the Art Deco jewellery that is the life-long passion of one of my heroines when I was in London meeting my editor, just before the pandemic changed everything. Jess’ particular skill is enamelling, something I’d learnt at school, and although I wasn’t able to meet up with local jewellery-makers as much as I’d planned, I was still able to get the information I needed, for which I’m hugely grateful.

So now, with my beautiful cover in place, and ‘The Girl with the Silver Clasp’ on its first steps out into the world, I’ve no real idea whether it will have a real-life launch or a virtual one, like I had last May for ‘The Ferryman’s Daughter’. Maybe it will be a bit of a mixture of both.

But either way, it will be exciting – and I can’t wait to share the story of Jess, Rachel and Giselle, as they each fight to overcome the past and move into a better future.

Will they find the courage to follow their dreams?

St. Ives, 1916.

Jess Morgan always hoped to become a celebrated silversmith, but when the men return from war she’s forced to return to her job as a seamstress. All she can cling to is the memory of that delicate, unique silver clasp she created for a society bride.

Rachel Bellamy served as an ambulance driver on the front line during the Great War but now it’s up to her to save the family home and picturesque harbour from her wealthy brother-in-law, before it’s too late.

Giselle Harding fought her way up from poverty to become a Hollywood movie star. Yet even the most beautiful jewels she owns will never replace the man she lost.

As the lives of the three women collide, will they be able to overcome their differences and fight together for the dreams they once held so close?

‘The Girl with the Silver Clasp’ is available for pre-order on Amazon – click HERE

And is available from NetGalley HERE