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Anna Mazzola

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Born

London, The United Kingdom

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Historical Fiction, Crime, Fiction

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Anna Mazzola is a writer of historical and Gothic fiction.

Her bestselling third novel, The Clockwork Girl, set in Paris in 1750, is a Sunday Times Historical Fiction pick for 2022

Her debut novel, The Unseeing, won an Edgar Allan Poe award. Her fourth novel, The House of Whispers, is a ghost story set in Fascist Italy and will be published in April 2023.

Anna also writes legal thrillers under the name Anna Sharpe, the first of which will be published in 2024.

When not writing or tutoring, Anna is a human rights and criminal justice solicitor, working with victims of crime. She lives in South London, with her husband, their two children, a snake and a cat.

She loves to hear from readers, so do get in touch on Goodreads or on social media.

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	The Clockwork Girl 3.88 avg rating — 3,386 ratings — published 2022 — 13 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
	The Unseeing: A twisting tale of family secrets 3.84 avg rating — 1,642 ratings — published 2016 — 20 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
	The Story Keeper 3.84 avg rating — 1,431 ratings — published 2018 — 9 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
	The House of Whispers 3.63 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 2023 — 5 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
	The Book of Secrets 4.08 avg rating — 709 ratings — published 2024	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
	The Word For Freedom by Amanda Saint (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Isabel Costello (Goodreads Author), Angela Readman 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — 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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	The Colour of Life and Other Stories by Amanda Saint (Goodreads Author), Hilary Taylor (Goodreads Author), Katherine Hetzel (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 6 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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Step 6: Character motivation and agency in historical fiction

Character motivation and agency in historical fiction

This is latest in a series of blog posts discussing how to write historical fiction and following how I wrote my latest historical novel, The House of Whispers.

Today I want to look at how to ensure your cha

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“She is very clever, your Miss Gale. She knows what to say to convince a man and she has evidently worked her sorcery on you. I assume she has manufactured a story to make you sympathize with her. Stories, Mr. Fleetwood, are dangerous things." He pointed to the walls around them. "That is precisely why we ensure that there are no stories here: no novels, no fiction. Only clinical texts, religious tracts, and, of course, the Bible.”
― Anna Mazzola, The Unseeing: A twisting tale of family secrets

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