And the Best Book is....

After the excitement of last week's launch of the Surplus Girls, maybe you'd expect me to be looking ahead to what's coming next, but I'm going to use this blog to take a look back instead, because 2019 ended with not one but two of my books being included in Best Books of the Year lists.

Even before publication, The Surplus Girls appeared as a Best Book on the Catherine's Cultural Wednesdays website. Catherine had read an ARC (advance review copy) and loved it so much she wanted to celebrate it right away.

Here is the link. You need to scroll right down to the bottom.

The other book that was chosen for this honour was A Respectable Woman, which was selected by Lou Capper, who runs the popular Waggy Tales book blog.

Here are the book's three covers - print & e-book, audio and large print....

... and here is what Lou said:

"Lovers of historical fiction will adore this book, I can’t recommend it highly enough. Susanna Bavin has quickly become one of my favourite authors."

If you'd like to see the other books, Lou chose, click here.

So I'm feeling pretty chuffed. The end of 2019 and the start of 2020 have been very kind to me - and I hope they have been to you too.