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Louise Douglas

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Hello and thank you for visiting my profile page. I write contemporary Gothic novels which are usually inspired by places close to where I live in the Mendips, close to Bristol in the UK, or by places I've visited, especially Italy and Sicily. The House by the Sea won the Jackie Collins Romantic Suspense Award in 2021. The Love of My Life, my first book, was longlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. My second book, Missing You, won the RNA Readers' Choice Award, and my third, The Secrets Between Us was a 2012 Richard and Judy Summer Read.

The next book, The Room in the Attic is due to be published in October 2021 and is a ghost story set in a Victorian asylum-turned-boarding school on Dartmoor.

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Louise Douglas I finished a readable draft of book six, which is a ghost story, a few weeks ago, and that's now with my editor. I'm waiting for her response and fing…moreI finished a readable draft of book six, which is a ghost story, a few weeks ago, and that's now with my editor. I'm waiting for her response and fingers crossed that she'll like it enough to give it the green light to go on to publication. I'm writing book seven, which is by far the most complicated book so far, but one that's very close to my heart. It's a love story, but a complex one. Will reveal more later. (less)

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Hi Louise, have you ever considered writing a sequel to "Love of My Life"? I loved that book and it would be great to see how Olivia goes forward. Does she end up with the chef from the coffee shop, how Marc fares with Natalie, etc. Please consider. It would be soo nice to have more, loved this book!! Thank you, Marilyn

Louise Douglas Hello Marilyn thanks so much for your two kind questions I can see that you posted six months ago but for some reason Goodreads is only showing them t…moreHello Marilyn thanks so much for your two kind questions I can see that you posted six months ago but for some reason Goodreads is only showing them to me now (it's probably something I did). I'm so sorry you must have thought me very rude not to respond. Firstly I'm really glad that you enjoyed Love of my Life, it's my favourite of all my books and if I do write a sequel, those are definitely the characters I'd like to return to so the answer is definitely maybe! I quite like the idea of Olivia getting romantically involved with the coffee shop man and then the pair of them opening a rival cafe to Marinella's... anyway, maybe. In answer to your second question, I had to take a year off writing for various reasons, but am just finishing a new book that I hope will be published early next year. I'll let you know. And once again I'm SO SORRY to take six months to reply to you. All my very best and thank you for reading my books, Louise x(less)

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Average rating: 4.11 · 112,246 ratings · 4,549 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	The House by the Sea 4.05 avg rating — 23,398 ratings — published 2020 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Room in the Attic 4.31 avg rating — 17,481 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Notebook (Toussaints Detective Agency, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 14,977 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Dress 4.11 avg rating — 12,158 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret of Villa Alba 4.24 avg rating — 9,906 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secrets Between Us 4.11 avg rating — 7,203 ratings — published 2011 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Love of My Life 3.87 avg rating — 6,124 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret by the Lake 4.19 avg rating — 4,769 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summer of Lies (Toussaints Detective Agency, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 3,456 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea House(Toussaints Detective Agency, #3) 3.96 avg rating — 3,288 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A week tomorrow it's the Romantic Novelists' Association awards lunch, by all accounts a fantastic do at a top London hotel and writers I've admired from afar for years will be there. It's my first proper literary event and I am excited and scared in equal amounts. The thing is, I don't really GO anywhere. I walk the dog in the Mendips and I go to work in Bristol. In between I shop, cook, clean, w Read more of this blog post »

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“He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you push it down, the truth always comes to the surface.”
― Louise Douglas, The Secrets Between Us

tags: history, the-past, truth

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“History can only hurt us if we let it.”
― Louise Douglas, The Secrets Between Us

tags: history, the-past

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“Every chance I’d had to make things better, I’d rejected. And now it felt as if each of those rejections had been a way of hurting myself when, instead, I should have been looking for ways to heal.”
― Louise Douglas, The House by the Sea

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
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“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
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message 4: by Wendy

Nov 05, 2020 03:16AM

Thanks for your friendship. Hope you will take a moment to look at my books and maybe find something to your taste.

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message 3: by Sam

Apr 28, 2009 05:41PM

Good to see you online. Know someone is thinking well of you tonight.

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message 2: by Louise

Apr 09, 2009 04:39AM

Caroline wrote: "I just wanted to leave a message to say someone in our year chose your book as the next book to read for our sixth form book club. I just finished reading it and I really enjoyed it and it's defini..."

Thanks so much Caroline, that's so nice of you to get in touch. Happy Easter! xxx

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message 1: by Caroline

Apr 07, 2009 02:23AM

I just wanted to leave a message to say someone in our year chose your book as the next book to read for our sixth form book club. I just finished reading it and I really enjoyed it and it's definitely a book i'll remember for a while so thank you :)

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