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Freda Lightfoot


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Accrington, Lancashire, The United Kingdom
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Born in Lancashire, I've been a teacher, bookseller and in a mad moment, a smallholder on the freezing fells of the Lake District where I tried my hand at the ‘good life’, kept sheep and hens, various orphaned cats and dogs, built drystone walls, planted a small wood and even learned how to make jam. I now spend the winter in Spain and summer in the UK. I have now published 48 books including many bestselling family sagas and historical novels.
For more information, visit my website www.fredalightfoot.co.uk.
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Gracie's Sin

Now Published by Canelo. 
It's 1942 and three young women join the Women's Timber Corps, eager to do their bit for the war effort. Buxom and bouncy, red-headed Lou is newly married and sees her training in Cornwall as a way of staying near her sailor husband.

I often interview people when I’m working on a book, and they readily find time to share their memories with me of the work they used to Read more of this blog post »
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“We all make mistakes, but it’s how we deal with the consequences that show our true worth,”
Freda Lightfoot, The Amber Keeper

“How wise we all are in retrospect. Unfortunately it was not possible to go back and change the past: one could only move on into a new future.”
Freda Lightfoot, The Amber Keeper

“We’d almost given up hope.’ ‘Oh, you should never”
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