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Helena Fairfax

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Helena Fairfax is a British author who was born in Uganda and came to England as a child. She's grown used to the cold now, and these days she lives in an old Victorian mill town in the north of England, right next door to the windswept Yorkshire moors and the home of the Bronte sisters. She walks this romantic landscape every day with her rescue dog, finding it the perfect place to dream up her heroes and her happy endings.
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Helena Fairfax Thanks for checking out my post on Goodreads, Luanna, and thanks so much for your great question! The north of England is a lovely place to live. I li…moreThanks for checking out my post on Goodreads, Luanna, and thanks so much for your great question! The north of England is a lovely place to live. I live in Yorkshire, home of the Bronte sisters, and North and South was set in Lancashire, to the west of us (and our great rivals :) ) North and South is one of my favourite books - and as for Richard Armitage in the TV series...the perfect hero!!
And regarding your question - what did I have for my tea? Today, by coincidence, I'm making Lancashire Hot Pot - a casserole with lamb and potatoes. Thanks for asking!(less)
Helena Fairfax I'm working on a contemporary romance set in a hotel in the Lake District, in the north of England. I had great fun researching. My hero is a diver, a…moreI'm working on a contemporary romance set in a hotel in the Lake District, in the north of England. I had great fun researching. My hero is a diver, and I enlisted the help of some of the divers from Penrith Divers' Club. We went on an outing to Lake Ullswater, where they performed a dive, and we were all interviewed by the local press. It was great fun, and I learned so much. I came away with so much admiration for the divers.
I hope to finish the manuscript by the end of Feb...so back to work now!(less)
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‘A Toast to the Ladies’: how researching women’s lives in the nineteenth century was an eye-opener

Another month… and our first authors’ Round Robin of the year! This month, author Skye Taylor has an interesting question for us:

helena fairfax, freelance editor, fiction editor What’s been your most fun or eye-opening research experience?

I’ve had a lot of fun researching my contemporary romances, from the south coast of France to the divers of the Lake District – but my most eye-opening research was for my non-fiction social history, Strugg

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