Elinor Heywood

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From the much-loved author of The Smallest Man and That Bonesetter Woman, a novel about finding happiness through an extraordinary circumstance...

When quiet, shy Elinor Mouse Haywood receives a proposal of marriage from the very eligible Frederick, she thinks its a love match. But little does she know that she has actually been the subject of a business translation between her aristocratic in-laws, who need money, and her father, a wealthy, self-made man who's insecure about his roots and beside himself at the idea of her becoming 'a lady.' Unhappily married, but the mother of a son she adores, she decides shes made her bed and is going to lie in it.

But when, she finds herself aboard the Titanic, with her husband, son and maid Molly, bound for America, she is presented with an opportunity she cannot pass up. As the boat sinks and Frederick and Molly are nowhere to be found, Elinor decides to claim Mollys identity as her own and to escape the binds of her existence

Author Bio

Frances Quinn grew up in London and read English at Kings College, Cambridge, realising too late that the course would require more than lying around reading novels for three years. After snatching a degree from the jaws of laziness, she became a journalist, writing for magazines includingPrima,Good Housekeeping,She,Womans WeeklyandIdeal Home, and later branched out into copywriting, producing words for everything from Waitrose pizza packaging to the EasyJet in-flight brochure. In 2013, she won a place on the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course, and started work on her first novel,The Smallest Man. That Bonesetter Woman is her second novel. She lives in Brighton, with her husband and two Tonkinese cats.