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A Little About Lee PennellLee Pennell was brought up in the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. She has worked as a solicitor in London, Surrey and Gloucestershire. She has written stories since she was a child, completing her first novel when she was sixteen. Landscape with a strong identity plays an important part in her work which includes children’s, crime and historical fiction and radio and stage plays.
Her new novel, Darkleigh, set in the Cotswolds, will available from the Amazon Kindle store as an e-book, price and timing TBA. The paperback version is being published by the end of September and will be available from Amazon and Waterstones. |
About this book
Sophie Latham, the younger daughter of the curate of Knights Darkleigh, has no prospects other than that of being the unwilling handmaiden to her discontented, complaining mother. A life of dull genteel poverty stretches before her.
But it is August 1815 and change is happening. Soldiers are returning from the Battle of Waterloo and new people have come to live in the remote Cotswold valley of Darkleigh. Sophie needs answers to the questions:
Why has Major James Howard imposed himself on her family?
What is his relationship with Caroline Firth, a young widow who has befriended her?
Why does she find Mr Freeman, the imposing Evangelical preacher, so frightening?
The answers to these questions change Sophie’s life for ever.
But it is August 1815 and change is happening. Soldiers are returning from the Battle of Waterloo and new people have come to live in the remote Cotswold valley of Darkleigh. Sophie needs answers to the questions:
Why has Major James Howard imposed himself on her family?
What is his relationship with Caroline Firth, a young widow who has befriended her?
Why does she find Mr Freeman, the imposing Evangelical preacher, so frightening?
The answers to these questions change Sophie’s life for ever.