Kiss from France

Susan Hughes grew up near a small mining village in Northumberland. For as long as she can remember books have been a part of her life. When she didn't have her nose in a book she was climbing trees, catching water boatmen from a nearby burn or go-carting in country lanes with the kids next door. After University she worked in the City of London during the frenetic 'Big Bang' boom of financial de-regulation, before marriage and family life led to a desire for a change of gear. A move to the rural West Country enabled her to raise her sons near the coast, encouraged her to indulge her penchant for visiting country piles, while also keeping up her reading habit by patronising the local bookstore. She became a writer almost by accident, after she found a handful of WWI silk postcards in a box of her grandmother's possessions. The romantic greeting on one of these inspired her to weave a story around its imagined sender and recipient. It became her first novel, ' A Kiss from France'. She is now working on her second book.

A Kiss from France is "a promising debut novel, showcasing a very good author to watch in future." Janey Hill, Historical Novel Society. Long listed for Historical Novel Society Annual Indie Award 2017.