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Wendy Unsworth was born and raised in Lincolnshire, England. Her passions are her family, travel, beautiful gardens and reading and writing stories. Wendy lived in Ndola, Zambia and Nairobi, Kenya throughout the 1980's and early '90's before returning to the U.K. to acclimatise back to the English weather in a draughty Cornish cottage close to Bodmin Moor!
Never one to stay still for long, Wendy currently divides her time between Edinburgh and the wilds of Portugal, places she loves, and where she can be close to loved ones.
The African continent has left a lasting impression; Wendy's first novel, The Palaver Tree, is set in a fictional Central African country and the fictional Cornish village of Berriwood, from which the series gets its nam ...more

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	The Palaver Tree (Berriwood Book 1) 4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	Kellie at Come-alive Cottage (Come-alive Cottage, #1) 4.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	Danger at Come-alive Cottage (Come-alive Cottage 2) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	Christmas at Come-alive Cottage (Come-alive Cottage #4 ) by Wendy Unsworth (Goodreads Author), Frances Lee West (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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
	Catastrophe at Come-alive Cottage (Come-alive Cottage 3) by Wendy Unsworth (Goodreads Author), Frances Lee West (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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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Before the New Year's Resolutions - a lesson learned in 2013

In January 2012 I began my adventure as an author with the publication of my first novel, 'The Palaver Tree.' The book had been close to my heart for a long time and, like many first novels, drew in part on my own personal experiences; in my own case, the privilege and danger of uprooting my comfortable life in England for a remote area of Central Africa.

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

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Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong

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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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