{"id":14314,"date":"2025-07-03T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=14314"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:26:03","slug":"rosalind-brackenbury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/rosalind-brackenbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalind Brackenbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was twelve, my parents first took me and my younger brother to France. I still remember our first meal there – such wonderful food! It was the start of a life-long urge to travel, to discover other places, languages and cultures.  I was born in London, England, went to boarding school, spent a year in Lausanne, Switzerland as an au pair girl, then went to Girton College, Cambridge, to read History. I came back to London after that, to do a postgraduate degree in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was offered a teaching job in the US at that point \u2013 but it was not to be; I married a fellow student instead and we had two children, who are now adults and live in the UK. We lived in Cambridge, then Leicester, then in Edinburgh, Scotland for 12 years.  In between, we spent a year in Aix-en-Provence, in southern France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All my life I have wanted to explore the world, and to write. Like many others, I started with \u00a0horse and adventure stories in exercise books, then my grandmother gave me her Olivetti typewriter, and I began in earnest.\u00a0 My first novel, A Day To Remember To Forget<\/em> was accepted by Macmillan, London, to my astonishment, when I was twenty-seven.\u00a0 After that, Macmillan took my next two novels, and I thought \u2013 again, like many others – I was launched and on my way. But a writer\u2019s life is never straightforward \u2013 there was a hiatus, when we lived in France, and then a novel I wrote there was picked up by Harvester Press, and published both in the UK and the US.\u00a0 It was the first of several novels that I have set in France, which still seems still to be the place where inspiration resides.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Many decades later, after spending time in Australia and Morocco, I came to Key West, married again, began writing more fiction and poetry, much of it set in the Florida Keys as well as in France.\u00a0 My novel about my parents\u2019 experience during World War 2, The Third Swimmer<\/em> won a Silver Indie Award in 2015. My two historical novels set in France were Becoming George Sand\u00a0 <\/em>and The Love Letters of Henri Fournier<\/em>.\u00a0 The University of Iowa Press commissioned my book about Virginia Woolf, Miss Stephen\u2019s Apprenticeship<\/em>. \u00a0I was chosen as Creative Writing Fellow at the College of William and Mary in 2007 and again in 2012, and was Key West\u2019s second Poet Laureate.\u00a0 I have now lived in Key West for thirty years with my American husband, but spend part of the year in England and in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Indigo Sky at Noon,<\/em>  my new novel with RHP, is set in a house in the Lub\u00e9ron that I visited some years ago with a college friend who lived nearby; I have borrowed it from Mary-Kay Wilmers, whose house it was, and who edited the London Review of Books<\/em> for many years. Everything that happens in my novel is freely invented, but I thank Mary-Kay belatedly for the use of her pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is delighted to bring you Rosalind Brackenbury’s Indigo Sky at Noon<\/em> in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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