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Isabella May lives in (mostly) sunny Andalusia, Spain with her husband, daughter and son, creatively inspired by the mountains and the sea. She grew up on Glastonbury's ley lines and loves to feature her quirky English hometown in her stories.

After a degree in Modern Languages and European Studies at UWE, Bristol (and a year working abroad in Bordeaux and Stuttgart), Isabella bagged an extremely jammy and fascinating job in children's publishing... selling foreign rights for novelty, board, pop-up and non-fiction books all over the world; in every language from Icelandic to Korean, Bahasa Indonesian to Papiamento!

All of which has fuelled her curiosity and love of international food and travel - both feature extensively in her cross-genre no
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OMG, Kristin! I am so sorry for not spotting this question... so here we are, 2 years later (hides under the table in embarrassment).

I visited the art gallery in Oslo which is home to The Scream and it haunted me for days and weeks. I myself was in an abusive relationship at the time. Knowing how truly powerful that image was, and the way it set my pulse off at a canter; the way it felt like I was looking at my reflection in a mirror, it just had to go into the novel. I'm glad it did the trick!(less)
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The Cricket Romance Series is COMPLETE!

… and I am back to the website after another ridiculously lengthy hiatus!

I promise (again) to do better and remember to update this space more frequently.

It’s been a busy time. I’ve written and published three new books in a whole new (to me) romance genre. If you’d told me that I would pen even one cricket romance when I started this writing journey several years ago, I would have laughed all th

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“Life is full of moments, precious snapshots in time: speechless mouths, astonished eyes, and burnt Lemon Meringue Pies.”
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