About Juliet

Juliet is the author of three historical novels published by Honno Press. Her latest is ‘The White Camellia’, set in Edwardian Cornwall and London, with a crumbling old house and a mysterious mine at the centre of an old family feud, against the backdrop of women’s struggle for the vote.

 

Juliet lives in a traditional Welsh cottage halfway between the romantic Isle of Anglesey and the beautiful mountains and ruined castles of Snowdonia.

After studying English at Lancaster University and King’s College, London, Juliet worked in a variety of jobs, from running a craft stall at Covent Garden Market to teaching English.

The Gwynfynydd Goldmine in Coed y Brenin, southern Snowdonia. Inspiration for the serial ‘Gold for a Princess’ .

Juliet began writing seriously after a severe viral illness left her with debilitating ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for years. Juliet always says that M.E. was the worst, and the best, thing that ever happened to her. On one hand, it sent her from being able to walk up mountains with ease to struggling to do the simplest of everyday tasks for more than a few minutes at a time. But on the other, it forced her to re-evaluate her life and her priorities. And it made her a writer.

Juliet in Brondanw Gardens, one of the inspirations for ‘Eden’s Garden’

She is now well and back to dog walking and working on her beloved garden. As well as novels under her own name, Juliet writes stories and serials for magazines as ‘Heather Pardoe’.

When not writing, Juliet works on local oral history projects, helping older people tell their stories before they are lost forever.

She’s also attempting to go as green as one shamelessly comfort-loving woman can go in an end-of-terrace cottage halfway up a Welsh hillside with as much slate as earth in the garden. And to do it cheaply and in style. It’s the only way to go!

In the grounds of Glynllifon, one of the inspirations for ‘We that Are Left’

Celebrating in Anna’s Tearooms in Conwy, on of the inspirations behind ‘The White Camellia’