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, (The Forgotten Wife in Canada and the USA) will be published in Spring 2019 with international editions to follow. Click the 'books' tab above to read more about it. 

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It’s Canada’s turn next!! 🇨🇦On April 30th The Forgotten Wife (Retitled version of The Forgotten Village.) appears in paperback! It’s a huge book with shiny letters on the front and inside flaps. Hope the mystery of Tyneham is well received in Canada. 🤞
I’m rather partial to a historic garden gate, a country house and a day in the countryside. More fuel for the writing fire. #gardengate #garden #nationaltrust #throughthegardengate
How amazing is this? #theforgottenvillage is actually IN The Forgotten Village Tyneham where the novel is set. Thanks to @svmitche for the amazing image.
A huge thank you to everyone who has bought a copy of #TheForgottenVillage. It’s currently at 128 in the kindle store! AND has two orange bestseller flags! I can’t thank you all enough 🤗🤗
Booksellers are the most wonderful people. I found #TheForgottenVillage on front tables at @bluewaterstones & @lakesidewaterstones Mark at the Lakeside store is now one of my fave people ever!!! Both shops had actually sold a few copies before I arrived to sign them. 🖊
My clever mum turned up with this fantastic balloon tonight! My jaw dropped when I saw it! What with this and the copious amounts of fizz I’ve just drunk, I’m having a marvellous publication day!
Lovely publication day flowers from my wonderful publishers @avon_books #theforgottenvillage 💐
It’s Publication Day for #theforgottenvillage and it’s just 99p in ebook! Thank you to all of you who pre ordered already! 💖💖
My writing companion. This is Socks. Yes, he’s on my lap. Yes, he’s huge. But he’s nearly 12 so I let him think he’s a puppy every now and again. 😂 #staffordshirebullterrier #staffiesofinstagram #amwriting
Yesterday, I made the bittersweet decision to give up my day job and become a full time writer. Full time as in half the week I still look after my three year old daughter on the days she's not in nursery. I wasn't sure I'd done the right thing. But today I woke up to find The Forgotten Village has had enough pre orders for it to have actually entered the overall Amazon Historical Fiction chart at No 50 and is No 21 in Women's Historical Fiction. I've leapt out of the Hot New Releases chart and gone into the actual chart. Exactly this time next week it will land on your kindles and you'll get your copy through the door. Thank you thank you thank you to all of you who have ordered it. It's you beautiful, wonderful people who have done this!!!
Celebrating the simple things in life. Tennis 🎾 tea ☕️ and avocado on toast 🥑 (normal service of booze and cake pics will resume soon I promise!)
Author copies of The Forgotten Village have arrived! So exciting to hold an actual copy and very odd to see words I wrote in book form. My youngest loves the new building blocks @avon_books have kindly just sent us. 🤷‍♀️📚
I’m half way through reading this and my heart is breaking. It’s just such a beautiful story told through letters. Has anyone else on here read it? #amreading
So many good things about joining the Romantic Novelists’ Assoc. When you’re busy trying to finish writing your second book, they kindly send you a magazine with which to procrastinate. Happy days.
And STILL only 99p in ebook versions!
Always lovely to see fab @avon_books team, especially when they send you off with a fab bunch’o’books. Which of my fellow Avon authors’ books should I read first? #amreading #bookstagram
With the gorgeous @elizabethemundy buying her fabulous second book in the amazing Lena Szarka series. Top tip: When taking selfies with books, always get the whole book in the shot 🤦🏼‍♀️
The sun is shining, the birds are swooping and diving over the mud flats as the tide is out and I’m back at my desk writing short stories for Women’s mags. What are you doing on such a glorious day? #amwriting #theviewfrommywindow
Bye bye Barbados 🇧🇧 Hello jet lag.
Beach bookshelf. Oh how I adore thee. #amreading #bookstagram
 
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