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Slow Burn Romance & Vintage Longing Interwar Britain Evernight Publishing Author The Quiet Chapter Podcast

London, England
Joined April 2026
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Call me old-fashioned, but romance is in the little things. ❤️ A handwritten letter. Remembering how someone takes their tea. Dancing in the kitchen. Holding hands after forty years. Although a handsome 1930s gentleman who can waltz wouldn't hurt. 😉 #Romance
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🖤 Friday the 13th wasn't always notorious! Friday and 13 had separate unlucky reputations before the combined superstition spread in the 19th century. Personally, I'd be more worried about the handsome Gothic hero with a secret wife upstairs. 😂 #FridayThe13th
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This year I've explored fantasy, cosy mystery, noir, horror, sci-fi and now Gothic mystery. Yet even my sci-fi became a love story. ❤️ I can write murders, monsters and magic, but apparently I can't stop people falling in love. 😂 #AuthorLife #AmWriting
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🌹 Some love stories were never given an ending. Letters from the trenches. Promises made on railway platforms. Sweethearts waiting for someone who never came home. Today we remember those who served, those who sacrificed, and those who loved them. Lest we forget.
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The dangers of writing historical romance: Googling 1930s underwear, Victorian bedroom etiquette and how to remove a corset. You can imagine the results when you forget to type 'historical'. 😳😂 My search history needs a chaperone. #AuthorLife #HistoricalRomance
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Monday morning, 2026: Shower, hair straighteners, Starbucks, work. Monday morning, 1943: Washbasin, pin curls, breakfast, factory shift. Both: Running late! ☕😂 Even in wartime, life carried on. Here's to the women who kept Britain working. ❤️ #MondayMorning #1940sLife
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These are some of the servicemen from my novels. Can you recognise them? Their stories are fictional. The courage and sacrifice of those who served were real. Today we remember those who served, those who returned and those who never came home. We will remember them. 🌺 🎖️
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I've been unwell, so things went quiet. The trouble with being an indie author? I AM the entire PR department, and apparently everyone went on sick leave! 😂 But I'm back, with a new time-travel romance. The lovers' secret phrase? "It's just a jump to the left…" 😉
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A Sunday evening in 1919… A roaring fire, snow falling over the Scottish Highlands, and a little cottage where love might find you when you least expect it. ❤️ Would you stay? #HistoricalRomance #ScottishRomance
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🎃 Feeling scared this Halloween? A roaring fire, a ghost story and a handsome leading man to cuddle up to. ❤️ Of course, if something goes bump in the night, he's investigating. I'm staying under the blanket! 😂 #HalloweenRomance #HistoricalRomance
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🎃 Halloween in the 1920s and 1930s wasn't all sweets and scary films! Apple bobbing, fortune-telling games, ghost stories and perhaps a little romance. ❤️ Would you have enjoyed an old-fashioned Halloween party? #VintageHalloween #HistoricalRomance
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🪞 Seven years' bad luck for a broken mirror. Salt over your left shoulder. Never walk beneath a ladder! From 1915 to 1946, old superstitions were still part of everyday life, especially during uncertain wartime years. Which one do you still believe? 👀
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During WWII, a letter from home could mean everything to a serviceman far away. News, affection, ordinary little details — reminders of the life waiting for him. My new WIP, The Letters We Kept, explores a romance that begins with two strangers and a letter. 💌
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Kids on half-term. No 5.30 am alarm, but my body woke me anyway. 😂 Thought I'd use the peace to fix ONE sentence in my manuscript. Four hours later, someone new has a tragic backstory and the original sentence is still there. #AuthorLife #WritersLife
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Half-term, then and now! In the 1930s, children played outside while Mum tackled the washing, cooking and endless housework. Today, many of us juggle all that AND paid work. For those of us who aren't full-time homemakers, that's two jobs for the next week. God save us all! 😂
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I knew Britain had food rationing during WWII, but I hadn't realised it continued until 1954! Imagine trying to put together a Sunday roast with your meat ration. 😳 The world has its problems, but at least we're not back there… yet! #BritishHistory #Rationing
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🍂 Cosy autumn evening? Perfect. ☕ Hot chocolate? Ready. 🛋️ Blanket? Ready. 📖 Book? FINISHED! 😭 I need something new to read! Any genre, I’m open to everything. What’s the best book you’ve read lately? ❤️ #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #AutumnReading
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🎃 You’re never too old for Halloween! A throwback to getting ready for my daughter’s first Disney Halloween event in Florida! She’s 16 now, and we STILL trick-or-treat. ❤️ I also have a secret trick for apple bobbing… which has sneaked into my latest WIP! 🍎
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Normal people see a handsome stranger. Romance writers see a troubled duke, a tragic past and an inconvenient inheritance. 😂❤️ We really can’t help ourselves! Anyone else have an overactive imagination? #RomanceWriter #WriterHumour #EleanorWhitlock
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A pastor’s daughter. A strikebreaker. Two people on opposite sides of the 1926 General Strike. ❤️ Can love survive divided loyalties? A Quiet Fire in May, published by Evernight Publishing. Do you love an opposites-attract romance? #HistoricalRomance #EvernightPublishing
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