Rosy Thornton
Rosy Thornton is a Fellow of Emmanuel College and a lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. In this capacity she is author of numerous academic legal publications; her last such book was Property Disrepair and Dilapidations: A Guide to the Law - a gripping read! In recent years, in a fling of mid-life irresponsibility, she has taken to writing humorous women's fiction. Her first novel, More Than Love Letters (2006), tells the story of a young woman who writes letters to her MP about issues large and small and ends up falling in love with him. Rosy's second novel, Hearts and Minds (2007), has a local flavour. It is set in al all-women's Cambridge College, St Radegund's, which breaks with tradition to appoint a man as Head of House, to the virulent opposition of some feminist dons. Her third novel, Crossed Wires, was published in December 2008. Hearts and Minds (2007)
It is a story of political manoeuverings in a Cambridge College - a 'campus' novel in the old tradition, but with a 21st century twist. A male Head of House is appointed to a women's college, with disruptive results.Hearts and Minds is published by Headline Review The Tapestry of Love (2010)
the story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a portrait of landscape, a community and a fragile way of life More Than Love Letters (2006)
Idealistic young primary school teacher Margaret Hayton writes campaigning letters to her MP (fast-spinning New Labour smoothy Richard Slater) about everything from asylum seekers to dog waste. A mixture of romance, tragedy and farce, this is also a novel about life in Ipswich in the shadow of the sugar beet works. Crossed Wires (2008)
Peter, a Cambridge geography don, crashes is car when swerving to avoid a cat. At the insurance company call centre his claim is deat with by Mina. She and Peter have in common that they both single parents. This is a tale about love across the class divide, but also about the small joys and tribulations of parenthood, about symmetry and coincidence, about things which separate and the things which bring us together. Ninepins (2012)
Ninepns is an isolated former tollhouse in the Cambridgeshire fens. There live single mother Laura and her twelve-year-old daughter, Beth, in the carefully controlled cocoon that Laura has built around them. But Beth is brittly asthmatic, lonely at school and increasingly distant from her mother. And into their lives like a brisk fen breeze comes Willow, a seventeen-year-old care leaver with a mysterious past, together with her social worker, Vince. Laura must decide: what does she want of Vince, and he of her? Is Willow dangerous or vulnerable, or maybe a little of both? And are all Laura’s painstakingly constructed certainties about to come tumbling down like ninepins? |