lorna cook

Welcome to my website. I live by the sea with my husband, two small daughters and a dog called Socks.

When I'm not Instagramming pictures of the seaside, I write dual-timeline books that weave secrets of the past with the present.

My first book The Forgotten Village, has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and was a Kindle Number 1 Bestseller. (In Canada and USA it’s called The Forgotten Wife) Click the 'books' tab above to read more about it and about my future novels.

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Tyneham: The Forgotten Village research pix batch 3. There are heaps more but I’ll pop them all over on my Facebook page 😊 Happy scrolling xxx
Tyneham: The Forgotten Village research pix batch 2 🏡 ⛪️ 🌳
Tyneham: The Forgotten Village. Here are my research pix from my visit to Tyneham a couple of years ago. There are a few so I’ll do them in batches but it’s a nice little look at Tyneham as it is now and some of the boards showing the residents and how the village once looked. 🏡 ⛪️ 🌲
The fire is lit and book 3 research is go! I have more factual details than I can shake a piece of gas-fired fake coal at but I. will. keep. reading. Today it definitely feels like work 📖📖🤯 How’s your day going? Xx
"My favourite food!" the Gruffalo said. 🍁🥾🐾🍃🐿 Nothing like a woodland stomp with the little one to refresh the senses.
#bookpost this week. The best post in the world, surely! Looking forward to diving into each of these. Totally up my street.
OK Autumn. I’m onboard now. Celebrating the start of the weekend by toasting marshmallows, dipping them in melted Dairy Milk and adding a few raspberries because...vitamins. How are you spending the last of the fine weather? ☀️ 🍫 🔥
Behold! (I’m going to start all my posts like this) The goldest thing I’ve ever seen. The Royals haven’t used it since 2002. Makes sense. Poor form to bowl around town in a carriage dripping in bling when the UK’s resorted to food banks. However...behold!! My eyes hurt now.
Ah the crisp autumn weather, jumpers and sunshine and clear but chilly skies. Happiness. Hope it’s glorious where you are.
Behold! England’s largest country house: Wentworth Woodhouse. Allegedly has 6 miles of corridors and 365 rooms, one for every day of the year. Visitors were given petals to scatter so they could find the trail leading to their rooms. Subject of the book Black Diamonds, the inside is shrouded in mystery while the outside is now shrouded in scaffolding. The house is so long it doesn’t fit in one pic. I’ve been dying to get inside this house since I read the book and after years of it being privately owned a trust now runs tours. Magnificent, spooky and allegedly a complete money pit. #countryhouse #wentworthwoodhouse
Today I won the Romantic Novelists’ Association #joanhessayonaward for new writers! There were so many amazing contestants so I feel so lucky. Can you tell I’m crying in this picture? Can you tell I can’t believe it? Even now, hours later I keep thinking, ‘My God, Alison said my name.’ (I’m still in shock.) 😳
Car selfie on way to York for the RNA #joanhessayonaward The sun is shining and car tunes are go.
Views from the air as we returned from holiday. The sun was setting and the moon on its way up and then...oh look there’s my house! Hey Britain, you’re ok 👌🏻
The annual family gathering in gorgeous Spain...with its wavy palms, snazzy yachts, simple architecture and totally over the top doors. And sun. Lots of sun. Where have you been this summer? ☀️
Yes I know. It’s not exactly Christmas weather out there. And I’m on hol in 30 degree heat but I couldn’t resist this #dualtimeline novel. When it gets a bit chillier out there I recommend this Festive tale set in Norway 🇳🇴 in ww2 and present day. An easy, light, lovely read.
So lucky to read an advance copy of this gorgeous ww1 fiction. It’s moving, gripping, immediate and urgent. With a mystery at its heart it’s right up my street. Out in October so keep an eye out.
Oooo I’ve just found out I’m getting a Dutch audio book for The Forgotten Village. This is the lovely Tanneke Hartzuiker reading it! She looks happy. Always a good sign! #audiobook #audiobookstagram #audiobooklove
‘Compelling page turner’, says this months Historical Novels Review of The Forgotten Village 🙌 Well now. 😀
#flowers Gorgeous bunch this week from @freddiesflowers Sometimes a girl just has to buy herself flowers 💐 y’know what I’m saying 🤷‍♀️ Hope your weekend has been lovely.
Book recommendation! This non-fiction book is amazing. If you’ve even a passing interest in Jack the Ripper this book will make you look at the case with fresh eyes. Jack gets barely a mention. Instead five women’s lives are charted from birth to death. Successes, failures, marriages, children, circumstance. And perhaps more importantly, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Awe inspiring history. #bookstagram #amreadinf #instabook
 
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