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PUBLISHED: Jul.08.2010

The Tapestry of Love

A rural idyll: that's what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you're no longer just here on holiday. There is French...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.12.2008

Crossed Wires

Peter is a Cambridge geography professor who crashes his Land Rover into a tree when serving to avoid a cat; Mina is the girl in the Sheffield call centre who handles his insurance claim. Their lives are a world apart, yet they have a lot in common. Both of them are single - and both of them are parents. 'Crossed Wires' is an old-fashioned fairy tale. It is about the small joys and...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.11.2007

Hearts and Minds

St. Radegund’s College, Cambridge, breaks with 160 years of tradition to appoint a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, to be its principal – to the virulent opposition of some of the feminist dons. Meanwhile, Senior Tutor Martha Pearce has problems of her own: a student rent strike, a marriage in stagnation and a depressed teenaged daughter. Political back-stabbing, gender...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.11.2006

More Than Love Letters

Idealistic young primary schoolteacher Margaret Hayton writes letters to her MP (New Labour smoothie Richard Slater) about issues large and small, from asylum seekers to dog waste. They meet, and eventually they fall in love – with more than a little confusion along the way.

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Feb.25.2009 - 11:25 pm

Author interview on Vulpes Libris

http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/author-interview-rosy-thornton/

Dec.17.2008 - 12:06 pm

Crossed Wires

http:/phillipa-ashley.com/blog/2008/12/12/crossed-wires-guest-writer/

Sep.17.2008 - 2:18 am

Cambridge don revealed to be a comedy author

http://dbridger.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/cambridge-law-don-revealed-to-b...

Sep.15.2008 - 4:45 am

Another, different voice

http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/2008/04/another-differe....

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Feb.14.2009

Crossed Wires

Published by Vulpes Libris

About Rosy

My first novel ('More Than Love Letters') was published in paperback in 2007, my second ('Hearts and Minds') in 2008 and my third, 'Crossed Wires' in 2009. My fourth novel, 'The Tapestry of Love' is out now in hardback (July 2010), with the paperback to...

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Rosy’s Favorite Books

North and South, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice.

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