Harriet Evans
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Harriet Evans

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Hello there! I'm actually two authors, the first is Harriet Evans the author of thirteen novels, two of them are Richard and Judy book club selections, several have been Top Ten Bestsellers, one won the Good Housekeeping Book of the year prize, but the accolade I'm most proud of is the lady on Twitter who wrote last month that she thought my books were real 'knicker grippers'. I suppose that's all you can hope for isn't it?! But I'm also, as of June 2024, Harriet F Townson, author of 1930s detective fiction! Please check out D is for Death which is under my new separate identity. It's very exciting, having two identities, I can tell you. I have written since I was a child, first on books I stapled together with paper then notebooks then a laptop that crashed and lost all of the novel I was writing in secret back in 2002. (So now I back my work up properly). Inbetween those I did Classical Studies at university which means I know all about Greek Gods and can win pub quizzes, worked in publishing as a very bad secretary in the 90s in London, eg I left Hugh Laurie waiting in reception for 20 mins & once messed up making a cup of tea for Harry Enfield, but I was also the Penguin Books fire marshal for one glorious year, had my photo in the back of a Jamie Oliver cookbook and shook hands with Lauren Bacall. For several years I was an editor working with lots of lovely authors like Penny Vincenzi, Eva Rice, Veronica Henry, Marian Keyes, Jane Green and Adele Parks but I always wanted to write. My first novel, Going Home, came out in 2005 and my latest, The Stargazers, was published in paperback in 2024. In 2019 I moved out of London, to Bath, city of the greatest lady novelist of all, Jane Austen. I love living here so much. (Also I love the fact you just randomly walk past people dressed in bonnets all the time and I'm never sure if they're extras from Bridgerton or just loving Regency life.) I have two daughters and live within walking distance of a Marks and Spencer, I'm very happy. My first novels were more about relationships and people in London and had more chicklit themes and the later ones are darker and more about families and secrets and houses and the past. I have so many stories in my head all the time and I adore knowing that my job means that I can carry on telling them. I am currently writing a trilogy about a British family from 1950s to the present day, as Harriet Evans, but I am also thrilled to have a second identity, from June 2024, as Harriet F Townson, author of mystery novels. D IS FOR DEATH is out on 6th June and is set in London in 1935. It's about a young woman called Dora Wildwood who escapes a terrible engagement and runs away to London, where she finds a body in the London Library. It is enormous fun and a departure from my other books but because I write them under another name Amazon cannot link them, but you can! so please let me know if you buy one. In the meantime, love and thanks and happy reading, Harrie xx
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