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Rachel Burton

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Rachel Burton is the bestselling author of historical timeslip novels and has previously written romantic comedies. The Butterfly Garden and A Bookshop Christmas were both shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2025 and 2022 respectively.

Rachel was born in Cambridge and grew up in a house full of books and records. She has read obsessively since she first realised those black squiggles on the pages that lined her parents’ bookshelves were actually words and it has gone down in family history that any time something interesting happened, she missed it because she had her nose in a book.

After reading for a degree in Classics and another in English Literature she accidentally fell into a career in law but her love of books pr
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Rachel Burton The original idea for the Many Colours of Us started as a contemporary reworking of Bleak House - but it's come a long way since then! It's set in par…moreThe original idea for the Many Colours of Us started as a contemporary reworking of Bleak House - but it's come a long way since then! It's set in part of London in which I spent a lot of time as a teenager - Julia's house is an actual house that used to belong to friends of my parents. Somewhere along the line those two germs of ideas turned into a book! (less)
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The Butterfly Garden

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A Bookshop Christmas

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The Secrets of Summer House

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With only two weeks to go until publication day for my next novel, I thought I’d dust off the blog (which I have been remarkably lax about updating this year) to tell you a bit more about it and where I’m going from here. I never set out to write Christmas books and I wrote […]
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“Since she'd left she hadn't felt attracted to anybody and wasn't interested in changing that. She wanted to learn to live with herself, to love herself, to be happy with her own company”
Rachel Burton, The Mystery of Haverford House

“When a reader picks up a romance novel they know that happy ending exists. They don’t have to worry about what will happen and they can just get totally immersed in how it happens. Sometimes when life deals you a few blows that kind of thing is important.”
Rachel Burton, A Bookshop Christmas

“that doesn’t give you the right to be snobby about genre fiction. Reading is completely subjective and most readers read all kinds of different books. Being a snob about genre is like pretending that reading on e-readers or listening to audiobooks is somehow not proper reading. It’s ridiculous.”
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“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
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"Yes, Piglet?"
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message 1: by Barbara (last edited Aug 25, 2016 02:03PM)

Barbara Hey,
Thanks for the friend request. Looking forward to have a new friend. I already read Jane Eyre. I think it's a good book. take care. keep in touch.


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