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Sonia Velton has been a solicitor in Hong Kong, a Robert Schuman Scholar in Luxembourg and spent eight years being a full-time Mum of three in Dubai. She now lives in Kent. Her writing has been short-listed for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, long-listed for the HWA Debut Crown and optioned for film. Her latest book, THE NIGHTINGALE’S CASTLE, is a fresh look at the legend of Elizabeth Bathory, the so-called “Blood Countess”.

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	Blackberry & Wild Rose 3.84 avg rating — 3,909 ratings — published 2019 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Image of Her 4.10 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sonia Velton answered Margot Portal's question: Hello. I was talking with my son about "The Nightingale's Castle" and we were seeing a connection between Countess Bathory' s "trial" and the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts in 1692. What do you think? Hi Margot and thank you for your question. Yes, I do think there are similarities between the witch trials of Salem and Pendle and what happened to Bathory. The person I kept thinking about when I wrote the book, though, was Anne Boleyn, just because See Full Answer
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― Sonia Velton, Blackberry and Wild Rose: A gripping historical mystery

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“But there are no secrets in London. Even the houses lean across the narrow alleys towards each other and offer up their scandals in the blink of an open curtain.”
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