​Did you know that the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) had typhoid fever in 1871, 20 years after his father, Prince Albert, had died of it. On his recovery, he lauded not only the medical profession but sanitary engineers. “If I were not a prince, I would be a plumber”, he is said to have proclaimed. The culprit was thought to be faulty drains at Sandringham. I’ve been researching Victorian sanitation arrangements as background for a romantic social comedy set in the 1870s and my heroine is—you guessed it—a plumber’s daughter. It should be available in early 2016.
If you’re a subscriber to Goodreads, watch out for two current Giveaway offers to win print copies of my new romantic saga, “Tracing Shadows” and my latest historical romance based on Victorian scandals, “The Regiment’s Forgotten Daughter”.

​Settle Library started the month with another celebrity visit, when Leeds-based author Frances Brody spoke about the background to her newest Kate Shackleton mystery “Death in the Dales”.
My latest Victorian scandal romance “The Regiment’s Forgotten Daughter” is up on Amazon Kindle from September 18th. A young woman sets out to uncover controversial goings-on in the British Army in the Indian Raj. The other two in the series, “Fair Play and Foul” and “Heiress to a Duke” are available at the specially reduced price of 99p.