Sheila Barton
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Sheila Barton

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Will and Sheila Barton live in Bath. Their shared fascination with the history of this unique city combined with a love of detective fiction led to the writing of The Woman in the Water, the first in a projected series of novels set in the late eighteenth century, when Bath was recreated as a spa town, combining the elegance of high society with the hard lives of the common people who waited, and sometimes preyed upon it – a “vale of pleasure and a sink of iniquity” in the words of one of its historians. Will has degrees in Philosophy and in Psychology from the University of Warwick and a Master’s Degree in Communication from Coventry University. He worked in the telecommunication and computing industries and then taught psychology and communications in Surrey, London, Coventry and now in Bath. He is the co-author, with Andrew Beck, of Get Set for Communication Studies. Sheila took a first class degree in theology at Cambridge and then worked as a teacher, lecturer, social worker and manager in the charity sector. When her son, Jonathan, was three he was diagnosed with autism. Her first book, Living with Jonathan, Lessons in Love, Life and Autism makes a powerful plea for respecting difference in people whilst keeping the reader amused, moved and enthralled. The Woman in the Water spans the parallel worlds of Georgian England, entwining the stories of Jonathan Harding, a recently widowed clergyman and Lizzie Yeo, a feisty maidservant with a chequered past, who between them uncover the dark secret behind the discovery in the River Avon of the body of a young woman …
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