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Louise Sharland

Originally from Montreal, Louise moved to the UK nearly thirty years ago after falling in love with a British sailor. She began writing short fiction, and in 2010 won the Woman & Home Magazine Short Story Competition. Her entry Black Rock, was subsequently published as part of an anthology, The Best Little Book Club in Town (Orion 2011), alongside writers such as Ruth Rendell, Jodi Picoult and Lee Child. This gave her the confidence to embark on her first novel, a young adult dystopia, The Time of Forgetfulness, and then her adult psychological thriller The Lake, which was published by Avon Books in March 2021. Louise’s second novel with Avon, My Husband’s Secrets, will be out in the spring of 2022. Louise is fascinated with exploring ideas and themes around why good people do bad things, and her experience working with people who have experienced homelessness gives her work a strong humanitarian and social justice theme. Above all, she wants to tell a good story that is entertaining, thought provoking and well written.