After many many months of research, writing, drafting and re-drafting, I have just given birth to my first novel.

Know You Her Secret back cover

It has been a long gestation but now – finally – it is done. Know You Her Secret has been published. Inspired by the true story of my great-great-aunt, it relates how Lucy King left her safe, secure middle-class home in Lancashire to become governess to a little Russia princess in the St Petersburg of Imperial Russia and was caught up in the Russian Revolution …

So What’s the Secret?

Well –it could be one of many. Was my great-great-aunt a spy? Did the well-known English children’s author and not so well-known British spy Arthur Ransome recruit her into the secret intelligence service during the Russian Revolution? Was she involved in the murder of Rasputin?

You can find the answers – and much more besides – in Know You Her Secret.

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