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Lizzie’s new novel – Harper’s Highland Fling
HIP HIP HOORAY – IT’S PUBLICATION DAY
Light the blue touch paper and stand well back
I’m really thrilled to be able to share Harper’s Highland Fling with you. Within a day of publication it reached #1 spot in ‘hot new releases’ and (briefly) #1 in Scottish Historical Romance – happy days.
It’s been a tough year for all of us with the pandemic breathing down our necks and to make things worse, my home town of Leicester has been in lockdown since the beginning of June. Seriously. So it was a blessed relief to be able to lose myself in my novel and join Harper and Rocco on their road trip as they set out to track down Pen and Ariel and bring them home. This is my sixth novel and I hope, by the time you reach the end of this post, you’ll be tempted to download it.
Here’s the BLURB
A classic Land Rover 
Rocco rides a classic motorbike
I wanted to incorporate the notion of a road trip featuring the uptight head of a federation of failing primary schools, a bohemian garage owner with a tragic past and a couple of teenagers who couldn’t understand why going AWOL might upset their responsible adults. Sound familiar? I take them on a road trip from the toe of Cornwall to Plockton in the beautiful west highlands of Scotland – stopping off at Bristol, Leicester (where else?), Penrith, and Gretna Green. I’ve travelled that route many times so I was able to get out all my old photos and have my own private road trip. As for the uptight headmistress – I wonder who she was based on ?
Heron Croft – the hero’s family home 
View of Loch Carron from Heron Croft’s garden 
The front door of Heron Croft 
The decking at the end of Heron Croft’s garden 
Heron Croft’s garden and view towards Harbour Street 
Cordyline Australis which grows on the shores of Loch Carron 
flotsam and jetsam collected on the fore shore and displayed on window ledges 
Plockton Station from where Harper catches her train back to England
To celebrate the launch of Harper’s Highland Fling I’ve organised a GIVEAWAY for newsletter subscribers. All you have to do is subscribe to my newsletter and follow the instructions there for a chance to win a signed copy of Harper’s Highland Fling and magnetic bookmark, a FREE kindle download of Harper’s Highland Fling, a gorgeous notebook, shortbread Scottie dogs (!) or Emma Hope notelets. The newsletter will be sent out on Monday 30th November – St Andrew’s Day, of course.
In my newsletter I will also share how the beautiful cover for this book came about. It’s quite a romantic story so do open my newsletter when you receive it to learn more.
