Welcome to my website, where you can find lots of information about my historical novels, including, my new book, Lady of the Butterflies, which is to be published in the UK in July by Preface and in the US by Putnam next year.

Lady of the Butterflies is the fictionalised story of Lady Eleanor Glanville, the first female butterfly collector. The Glanville Fritillary is named after her but she is best remembered for the fact that her relations overturned her will on the grounds that no sane person would 'go in pursuit of butterflies'. Set in Somerset and London during the turbulent time of the Restoration, Lady of the Butterflies is a dramatic tale of passion, prejudice and death by poison, of riot and rebellion, science and superstition, of madness and metamorphosis. It is also about the beauty of butterflies, about hope, transformation and redemption.

My first book, Isabella, is set in the English Lake District in the Eighteenth Century and tells the haunting love story of Bounty mutineer, Fletcher Christian and his cousin Isabella Curwen. It was short listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2000. My following books, Pale as the Dead and Bloodline, combine history with mystery in an original take on the detective novel and feature young ancestor detective or genealogist, Natasha Blake. Bloodline won the Mary Higgins Clark Award 2007 and has been optioned by Leonard Goldberg, (producer of TV classics such as Charlie's Angles and Starsky and Hutch). It is being produced by Darren Reagan, who has also just optioned Isabella.

I enjoy researching my books as much as I enjoy writing them and if you browse these webpages you'll find plenty historical background as well as reviews, news and interviews. I hope you'll visit again soon.

XX Fiona