2 Books by Rachel Hore
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Overview: Hi – I’m Rachel Hore.
During my early teenage years I perused Jackie magazine and longed for romance, but instead fell in love with English literature. I tried Jane Austen and the Brontes, raided my grandfather’s bookshelf for Dickens and my local library for Virginia Woolf, George Orwell and Wilkie Collins. I owe a huge debt to the public library system and believe passionately that we should maintain it for future generations.
History is full of fascinating stories of how we came to be, and that’s why I chose it to study at Oxford University.
After I graduated I had a brief flirtation with museum work, but eventually books won out again. I took a secretarial course and landed a junior position at Cassells Publishers in Westminster and knew at once I’d found a career where I felt totally at home.
Three years of enjoyable dogsbodying later I emerged as a fledgling editor.
It was then I landed my dream job – assistant editor at HarperCollins Publishers in the Fiction department! I worked there for many wonderful years, eventually becoming a senior editorial director and looking after my own stable of well-known names.
As an editor I learned a great deal from my authors – about the craft of storytelling, how to develop strong characters and write good dialogue, all sorts of writerly tricks.
I observed with admiration the huge amount of work that my authors put into their novels and, above all, I learned the discipline of editing and re-editing work, which even the best writers need to do.
My life, however, was about to change.
During my time at HarperCollins I’d met and married one of my authors, D.J. Taylor (David), and in due course we had three lovely sons.
In 2001 I gave up my job and we all moved from London to Norwich, my husband’s birth place.
Here it was that I finally gave in to the desire to write.
I started with a short story, but it went on growing and became The Dream House.
It was thrilling, but also nerve-wracking, to send it out into the world to find a publisher.
I’ve had nine novels published now, with the tenth, The Love Child, coming on 5th September 2019, all with the lovely team at Simon & Schuster UK through my agent, Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown. I also teach Publishing and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and review fiction. Norwich has recently become a UNESCO City of Literature – what better place can there be to live and work?
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics Fiction – Historical
Last Letter Home (2018)
Can a chance encounter unlock one woman’s past?
On holiday in Italy, Briony Wood becomes fascinated by the wartime story of a ruined villa hidden amongst the hills of Naples.
Not only is it the very place where her grandfather was stationed as a soldier in 1943, but she also discovers that it harbours the secret of a love long lost.
Handed a bundle of tattered letters found buried at the villa, Briony becomes enraptured by the blossoming love story between Sarah Bailey, an English woman, and Paul Hartmann, a young German.
The letters lead her back almost seventy years to pre-war Norfolk.
But as Briony delves into Sarah and Paul’s story, she encounters resentments and secrets still tightly guarded.
All too quickly it is clear that what happened long ago under the shadow of Vesuvius, she suspects, still has the power to cause terrible pain . . .
The Love Child (2019)
A young mother’s sacrifice . . . .
A child’s desperate search for the truth . . . .
London, 1917.
When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby.
She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family.
But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like child she gave away, and she mourns the father, a young soldier, so beloved, who will never have the chance to know his daughter.
Edith and Philip Burns, a childless couple, yearn for a child of their own.
When they secretly adopt a baby girl, Irene, their life together must surely be complete.
Irene grows up knowing that she is different from other children, but no one will tell her the full truth.
Putting hopes of marriage and children behind her, Alice embarks upon a pioneering medical career, striving to make her way in a male-dominated world.
Meanwhile, Irene struggles to define her own life, eventually leaving her Suffolk home to find work in London.
As two extraordinary stories intertwine across two decades, will secrets long-buried at last come to light.
Brilliantly evoking the changing attitudes of the time, The Love Child is a novel about love, family, separation, despair and hope, full of tenderness and deep feeling.
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