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Lydia Coral Willcock

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Lydia Coral Willcock is a South African homeschool grad passionate about writing accurate and realistic historical fiction set in or centred around her own country. She is also an avid reader and strongly believes the two go together. Never happier than with a book in her hand or a WIP in her head, she also loves studying history, playing the piano, and knitting favourite literary characters.

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Courting Miss Lancaster (The Lancaster Family #2)

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