First Novel

A New History of Love

When Bel’s old flame makes an unexpected reappearance in her email inbox, she neglects family life to relive the summer she spent with Alec fifteen years earlier in a small chateau in France.  A New History of Love is the story of an affair that comes back to haunt the lovers long after the event and  the seventeenth century map of love that Bel hopes will provide a clue to where her future lies.

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Carte de Tendre of M. de Scudery. (Paris BNF)

In June of 2007, with the title of Love Me Tender, the novel was among 100 prizewinners shortlisted in the A&C Black novel-writing competition, and more recently, as The Landscape of Love, got to the semi-final stage of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

A New History of Love is a literary love story which readers have compared to books by Salley Vickers, Clare Chambers and Patrick Gale.

Any agent or publisher who is interested should contact me for a synopsis  and partial or full MS.

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