Morag Edwards
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Morag Edwards

Literature & Fiction
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After trying many different forms of writing, in 2005 I decided that I wanted to focus on the novel and took a leave of absence from my work as an educational psychologist to complete an M.A at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing. I have over thirty years' experience of the impact of early childhood experience upon adult relationships and use this knowledge to develop my characters' personalities, even in historical fiction. Once I know the child, I have the adult! 'The Jacobite’s Wife' is the first book in the Jacobite Saga and is a fictionalised account of the life of Winifred Herbert, later Countess of Nithsdale. As a Scottish child, I learned about her role in her husband's dramatic escape from the Tower of London but in researching Winifred's life, I found that it was her story I wanted to tell. 'The Jacobites' Plight' is the second book in the series and takes the reader to the end of Winifred's life as well as following her brother William's story, and her fascinating niece Mary Herbert, gambler and entrepreneur. The Herbert family continue to intrigue me and for my third book in the Jacobite Saga, currently in preparation, I have found two more fascinating women who marry into the Herbert family, Henrietta Waldegrave (later Beard) and her daughter Barbara Herbert, Mary Herbert's niece. Mary contrives to control Barbara's future with her usual blind confidence! 'Broken' is my first domestic-suspense drama. Ros grew up in care and has a baby at eighteen. On the maternity ward, she meets Anna, having her fourth child. Anna projects an image of a perfect life but her husband Nick resents the constraints of family life and is deceiving her. As their lives become entangled, all three struggle with secrets and lies. When Ros's past encroaches, their lives are blown apart. My second domestic-suspense novel, Crash, will be published by Bloodhound Books in May, under the pen name Isobel Ross.
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