Lucy Dillon

It seems like a hundred years ago since I wrote the opening lines to After the Rain but now, finally, it’s out in the shops, with a cover as bright as sunshine emerging from clouds. My initial inspiration for Tara’s journey was the flash flooding that swept Herefordshire in the autumn of 2019, causing widespread […]

Dogs and stories are, obviously, two of my favourite things, so I’m VERY excited to be involved with the Hope Rescue short story competition for young writers. The rules are simple: 500 words, about a dog(s), and you have to be under 16. 

Yes, there were many things I thought I might do in lockdown – blitz my cupboards, Sort Out My Accounts, get back on the C25K horse of misery – and, no, I didn’t do any of them. The most useful thing I’ve accomplished since March is successfully threading my own chin.

When I was going through my late father’s things – the first, panicky, pre-funeral sweep of drawers and cupboards in search of documents – I found his fountain pen.

Hello! Is this week 7 of lockdown or are we still in week 1 but in some kind of groundhog day loop? I’ve lost track. I’ve basically chucked my diary and am now telling the time through the length of my roots.

Hello! And welcome to the be-slippered, un-made-up, what day is it again? world of the habitual home worker. Come on in! The kettle is nearly always on. Just kick the dog off the sofa. Sorry about the hairs.

Hello! I’m sorry for the recent silence (not unusual, I admit) but I’ve been taking a few days off to process the shock of my lovely, wise and apparently not immortal dad passing away unexpectedly last month.

When I told my husband my new novel, Unexpected Lessons in Love, was about a woman who calls off her wedding at the last minute, he went a bit pale.

… a bargain! Unexpected Lessons in Love is just 99p in the Amazon 12 Days of Christmas Kindle sale – and Kobo is matching it too. And it’s still only 99p in the Books We Love Apple promotion too!

Last Friday, I did something I’ve never done before – I went to sit in on the recording of the audiobook edition of Unexpected Lessons in Love.

Those of you with green fingers are maybe wondering whatever happened to my tomatoes, those brave red pioneers so painfully dependent on the vagaries of the British summer, and, more troubling, on me and my very un-green fingers.

So, without further ado, here it is!   This is the gorgeous, fresh new look for Unexpected Lessons in Love which will be published on December 5th in ebook and audiobook, and then in paperback on January 9th. It’s the story of shy musician Jeannie, and what happens when she realises, in the heart-stopping moments […]