Rosy Thornton's Books
Jul.08.2010
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...
Nov.12.2008
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...
Jan.11.2007
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...
Jun.11.2006
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.
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...
Causes Rosy Thornton Supports
ShelterMIND
Rosy’s Favorite Books
North and South, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice.