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Dear Reader,

Welcome to my world!

Science fiction and fantasy authors create new worlds where things are strange and new. My world is created from memory and is built with the familiar, the remembered and loved.

I’ve written several books set in Maybridge. Whilst it is a fictional town, it is inspired, like the village of Longbourne and the city of Melchester, by the places where I grew up and know well. In The Last Woman He’d Ever Date, I’ve brought in the little park on an island in the river where I played, and took my own children when they were small. Background stories, heard as I was growing up, add richness to the characters. Cranbrook Park is based on one of the great houses in the countryside surrounding the town where I was born. Oh, and I worked on the local newspaper, just like Claire Thackeray.

That’s where reality parts from fiction. Claire and Hal are characters who became very real to me as I wrote their story: the privileged child who, with bravery and grit, has grown up coping with life handing her lemons, and Hal North, the bad boy who has made good and come home to Cranbrook Park to complete the circle.

Their first meeting is coloured by memory, too, and does not go well. But they both learn to move on, let go of old hurts and find a new life. I hope you’ll enjoy their journey.

With love,

Liz