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Isabella May lives in (mostly) sunny Andalusia, Spain with her husband, daughter and son, creatively inspired by the mountains and the sea. She grew up on Glastonbury's ley lines and loves to feature her quirky English hometown in her stories.

After a degree in Modern Languages and European Studies at UWE, Bristol (and a year working abroad in Bordeaux and Stuttgart), Isabella bagged an extremely jammy and fascinating job in children's publishing... selling foreign rights for novelty, board, pop-up and non-fiction books all over the world; in every language from Icelandic to Korean, Bahasa Indonesian to Papiamento!

All of which has fuelled her curiosity and love of international food and travel - both feature extensively in her cross-genre no ...more

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	The Chocolate Box 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2020 — 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
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The Cricket Romance Series is COMPLETE!

… and I am back to the website after another ridiculously lengthy hiatus!

I promise (again) to do better and remember to update this space more frequently.

It’s been a busy time. I’ve written and published three new books in a whole new (to me) romance genre. If you’d told me that I would pen even one cricket romance when I started this writing journey several years ago, I would have laughed all th

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Sunshine at The Cornish Bakery (Escape To... The Cornish Bakery #1)

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Second Chances at Bamburgh Beach: A sweeping contemporary British novel of tragic secrets, long-held guilt, and a second-chance love story on the windswept Northumberland coast

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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

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