The Bowes Library Corner: Release of The Actuary's Wife

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Release of The Actuary's Wife

I just reread that title and it looks like poor Emma has been held against her will. She has. But fortunately only in my head.

My romance/mystery series, From Russia, With Love, is about a Russian family who moved to England in the 1990s at the end of the Cold War. Their lives took a sinister twist when widowed Alanya Andreyev dragged her two young boys into her marriage to a Lincolnshire vicar.

The Actuary picks up the story around 2014 when two of the stepchildren from that marriage are reunited after a six year separation, with interesting consequences. The series takes place in the sleepy town of Market Harborough involving a Russian actuary, an English vicar's daughter and a trouble-making Irishman.

The Actuary's Wife has been a labour of love and releases on 15th October. Why that date? It's my father's birthday and I tend to use release dates I can't forget, so Happy Birthday Dad and thanks for letting the Andreyevs share your day!

I love Emma's character and exorcise my sense of mischief writing her; she's plucky, impetuous and occasionally hilarious. But she's also deeply passionate, fiercely loyal, and there's a sense of unknown depths to her character, as yet unexplored. After a thoroughly rotten start in life, she's determined her own children will have a better go at life, inadvertently becoming the author of their problems as well as her own. She's great, I love her and I'm definitely not done with her yet.

For those who've done pre-order, thank you for having such faith in me. I can see the numbers racking up and it's cool. For those wishing to dip a toe in the water without too much commitment, The Actuary which is book 1, will be free from 15th to the 20th October.

http://www.amazon.com/Actuarys-Wife-Russia-Love-Book-ebook/dp/B015OQNCAO

Enjoy and let me know how you get on. I love to hear from readers and find it really encouraging.