A Look Back at Writing Hope for the Railway Girls

Posted on 29th May, 2025

I keep my old work diaries  and now and agin I have a flick through to see what I was up to at certain points.

 

This week back in 2021, I was halfway through writing Hope for the Railway Girls, book 5 in the series.

 
I've always had a soft spot for Margaret (the girl on the left, wearing dungarees), so it was a great pleasure to write from her viewpoint for the first time and let readers got to know her on a personal level.
 
It was also the first book to be published after I'd been allowed to 'out' myself and tell everyone that Maisie Thomas, Polly Heron and Susanna Bavin were all one and the same! I celebrated by writing about living in Llandudno in my letter to my readers in the back of the book.
 
Much of Hope was written beside the sea, here in this little bay....
 
 
 
When the tide was in, I sat on the steps to write....
 
 
 
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Link to The Railway Girls series on Amazon. For rasons best known to themselves, Amazon has just put books 1 - 7 on the series page, but remember there are also books 8 and 9.
 
 
 
 

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