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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‘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
Ooooo it’s the Canadian version, The Forgotten Wife out in the wild in Vancouver at Chapters Indigo. I’m hanging out on a display in some seriously good company! Thanks to lovely reader Ulrika for finding it and hopefully putting both of those in her basket 😂
Feeling very Darling Buds of May today, fruit picking with the fam. Raspberries and strawberries galore. 🍓🍓🍓🍓Now back to editing. How have you spent your day?
Socks has been lounging on me today while I research and has been giving me ‘looks’ if I turn pages too loudly or have to move him to grab my pad and pen.
Finally. A sit down and a read. #boats #booze #books (All the B’s.) How’s your evening?
#harrypotter #afternoontea. And yes, there were cloaks to wear! 🤭 🧙‍♀️ 🧁 Hope you’ve all had a fab weekend xx
I’ve had a bumper crop of fantastic news these past few weeks and so here’s one last one, I promise you, before I become one of ‘those’ people we all love to hate. But it’s my book! In The Bookseller! And an Award nomination along with lots of other wonderful, lovely authors. Back to pics of the seaside, 🏖 ice cold wine, 🍷 and cake 🧁 very soon, I promise you. 💕
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
 
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