{"id":3892,"date":"2023-10-13T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2023-10-13T17:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T15:56:31","slug":"sue-moorcroft-take-three-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3892","title":{"rendered":"Sue Moorcroft: Take Three Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Absolutely delighted to have Sunday Times best selling author, Sue Moorcroft, on the blog. Sue is the newly elected president of the Romantic Novelists\u2019 Association and is unstintingly generous and supportive of other writers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over to you, Sue, and your three books of choice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which book would you most like to have written?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Woman Left Behind<\/em> by Linda Howard. I love this book. I\u2019ve read it twice and listened to it as an audiobook, too. Jina is attached to a special forces team for her expertise with clandestine drone operations. Levi is head of the team responsible for putting her through the physical conditioning necessary to keep up with the super-fit men. Jina makes friends with almost everyone else on the team but her relationship with Levi is prickly . . . yet fuelled by red-hot attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attraction wanes on Jina\u2019s side when a mission goes wrong, and Levi has to make the decision to leave her alone in foreign territory. How does he redeem himself from that?<\/em> Will Jina even consider forgiving him? Linda Howard is a courageous author to take that kind of conflict on, let alone manipulate these disparate, strong characters through it. I can only recommend that you read this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right with you here, Sue. I love Linda Howard\u2019s books!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now tell us about the book which never fails to inspire you:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Town Like Alice<\/em> by Nevil Shute. I watched the film with my dad one Saturday afternoon when I was nine, and then he mentioned that he had the book. It was my first grown-up novel. I just devoured it. It taught me what a sweeping love story should look like, how love can conquer all yet still be doubted. The hero, Joe, is literally crucified for the heroine Jean and for years each believes the other to be dead. Set against a very real background of war in Malaya and then the Australian outback, I still reread this book every few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A book that stays with the reader – in so many ways. I rewatched the film recently and it\u2019s still a powerful and moving watch.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, share this gorgeous Christmas new release you have coming out:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Christmas Love Letters<\/em> <\/a>will be published on October 26th in paperback, ebook and audio. It\u2019s set in the tiny village of Nelson\u2019s Bar up on a Norfolk headland, the setting for an earlier book, A Summer to Remember<\/em><\/a>. I\u2019ve long been fascinated by a story my dad used to tell me about a family member whose husband went missing in WWII. Just as the seven-yearmark arrived, after which she could request that he be presumed dead so she could remarry \u2013 up popped the husband, having been living with another woman in Italy. In those days, the wife came out of these situations badly, as her choices were often to resume married life with her husband or leave and take her chances in a society weighted against women making it alone. I don\u2019t know how my relative\u2019s husband stood with the authorities, but everything was in his name, and he resumed a tight hold on the purse strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, at a writers\u2019 summer school last year, a lady passed to me a bundle of love letters sentto a member of her family. They were fascinating, not least because the man who wrote the letters served in the Ministry of Defence like my dad, in the same regiment, and was having a love affair with a female civilian co-worker. He was married, she was not. The letters spanned nearly thirty years and captured my imagination. I so wanted to be able to go to Amazon and download a final instalment that would tell me what happened in the end! But all I could do was piece together some of what I didn\u2019t know to conjure up a backstory that weaves in and out of Maddy\u2019s present story (with name changes, of course). Maddy\u2019s great-aunt Ruthie, for whom Maddy is carer, becomes the recipient of the love-letters, which brings into Maddy\u2019s life Raff \u2013 the adopted son Ruthie\u2019s erstwhile lover, Nigel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raff becomes the first man Maddy\u2019s has had real feelings for since her husband Adey vanished from a clifftop one snowy night, but the secrets of the past spill out, making Maddy sure that love, for her, is out of reach. Though I put her in the limbo of not knowing what had happened to Adey, I decided to redress the scales for my long-ago relative. In the modernworld, I was able to make Maddy a fighter, unafraid to confront the situation head on as Adey\u2019s best mate and parents only load more trouble on her shoulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Christmas Love Letters<\/em> <\/a>will be available from 26th<\/sup> October 2023 in paperback, ebook and audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a beautiful cover! Here\u2019s a little info about our guest author and the linky things:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times<\/em> bestselling author, and her books have been #1 on Kindle UK and Top 100 on Kindle US, Canada and Italy. She writes two books a year for publishing giant HarperCollins and has won the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Novel of the Year, Readers\u2019 Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary. She\u2019s president of the Romantic Novelists\u2019 Association and past vice-chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her novels, short stories, serials, columns, writing \u2018how to\u2019 and courses have appeared around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon page: Sue Moorcroft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: :www.suemoorcroft.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook author page SueMoorcroftAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @SueMoorcroft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram: @SueMoorcroftAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linked in: Sue Moorcroft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link Tree: linktr.ee\/SueMoorcroft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huge thanks for coming on, Sue!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Absolutely delighted to have Sunday Times best selling author, Sue Moorcroft, on the blog. Sue is the newly elected president of the Romantic Novelists\u2019 Association and is unstintingly generous and supportive of other writers. Over to you, Sue, and your three books of choice. Which book would you most like to have written? The Woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[938,894,379,105,132],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avon","tag-christmas-romance-books","tag-new-release","tag-romantic-fiction","tag-sue-moorcroft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}