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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Hey Netherlands! It’s Dutch publication day for The Forgotten Village. Good luck little book 📚
I have news! I’m so excited to be staying with @avon_books for more dual-time novels until at least 2022! (I’d best get writing...)
Thank you to everyone who made this crazy bonkers figure happen! 100,000 copies sold was never something I thought would ever apply to a book I’d written. Real life is, sometimes, stranger than fiction. If you are one of the 100,000 who bought The Forgotten Village then I thank you (a lot!) 🥰
At Culloden. This one’s for the #outlander fans 📖⚔️🛡
Today we are on The Jacobite Express. Or as my daughter calls it, the Harry Potter train. 🚂 🧹🧙‍♀️
In the Scottish Highlands, book 2 research slightly paused while I devour this wonderful Scottish novel and take in the dramatic forest scenery. Yes, I am on Scotland overload, if there is such a thing! #scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #amreading
Fairytale castles, reindeer (actual real reindeer at my window), views of glens, and the most fantastic log cabin. I 💗 Scotland so much.
At Loch Ness! Research for The Forbidden Promise (that I’ve already written and submitted and am now editing...Don’t ask...mutters something about moved deadlines and schedules) 😂 However, I am here nonetheless and it is glorious!!! #scotland #lovescotland #highlands #amwriting #amediting #authorsofinstagram
#shelfie for The Forgotten Wife in the wilds of Nova Scotia! I am just so happy whenever someone sends me these. I jump for joy like a small child on too much sugar!
Editing juice! It’s 8pm. Its Vina Sol. It’s allowed. #amediting 😉
The hubby has bought me an incentive to stay in the office on this glorious day. Structural edits + white Magnum = some sort of strange happiness. #amediting #amwriting #book2
Mad but lovely to have my two books in the Women’s Historical Fiction Chart on Amazon. The Forgotten Village is at 🥇and The Forbidden Promise is at 50! Thanks to everyone who is buying and pre ordering one or the other (or both!) 😀
If you’ve not bought The Forgotten Village yet, here’s what some lovely lady called Mrs A has to say about it. It’s 99p and still at 🥇 in the Kindle chart. I love a shouty, instructional review. Mrs A, whoever you are, wherever you are, you’re one of my faves. 😀
Wiser words were never spoken. Am verrrrry slowly considering planning book 3. Verrrrry slowly. Am going to sully the pages of this wonderful notebook with randomness and oodles of heroic wartime spirit. Or I may just stare out the window at the relentless rain ☔️
The most amazing sunset over King’s College Chapel yesterday night. The sky looked alight as the setting sun tried to break through the rolling grey rain clouds. #nofilter #authorsofinstagram #sunset
#daksovernormandy #daksoverduxford amazing formation over my house as they head towards the coast. So privileged to have been able to see this #dday75
Looking forward to reading this gem 💎 I loved @jennikeer last novel and this one is out soon 🤩 📚
I do love a themed #afternoontea This time it’s #beautyandthebeast Delish 😋 #cake #cakes #authorsofinstagram
So many #ww2 finds at Michelham Priory. Original newspapers and leaflets, evacuee letters and amazing finds left behind from the war. I was in heaven. #countryhouse #authorsofinstagram
#bookpost looks creepy and inviting and hide-under-duvet-worthy. Can’t wait. #histfic
 
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