Lucy Ashford

As a child, Lucy was at her happiest immersed in a book, and fortunately the public library was just around the corner, so she was one of its most regular clients! She studied English at Nottingham University and was supposed to immerse herself in Anglo-Saxon, linguistics, the lotbut really, looking back, she was always drawn to novelsespecially historical novels.Lucy has lived in London and various other parts of the United Kingdom with her long-suffering husband, a retired solicitor.

 She has one daughter, a musician based in York. Lucy and her husband now live in the Peak District, near to Bakewell and beautiful Chatsworth House, in an old stone cottage with roses around the front door. She loves gardening and walking in the hills, dreaming up her next story.