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Hi, I’m Emma Rous and I took a rather scenic route to becoming a writer.

I lived in several different countries as a child - England, Indonesia, Kuwait, Portugal and Fiji - and I grew up with a passion for stories and animals. I studied zoology and veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge, and I worked as a veterinary surgeon for eighteen years, which I absolutely loved. But the older I got, the more I appreciated talking to my clients and listening to their life stories, and these fascinating conversations helped to fuel my long held ambition to write fiction. Eventually, in my early forties, I took a break from my vet job and wrote The Au Pair, which became a USA Today bestseller and was published in eleven countries in ten langu ...more

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An introduction to THE AU PAIR, and my inspiration for writing it.

THE AU PAIR tells the story of two women.

Seraphine Mayes lives in her ancestral family home, Summerbourne, on the English Norfolk coast. Her mother died there hours after Seraphine and her twin brother were born, and for years Seraphine was taunted at the village school for not looking and behaving like her brothers. The story begins when she’s twenty-five, sorting through paperwork after her fath Read more of this blog post »

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“there something you want to confess, Seraphine?” “No!” I say, but I can feel the heat in my cheeks. “Don’t be ridiculous.”
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