Persuasion, a film location, and a reading

Last Thursday evening I was invited along by Helen Wilkinson of P and P tours to come and do a reading of Willoughby’s Return to a group she was leading on their Persuasion/Sense and Sensibility tour. Most exciting was the fact that the house I was to be giving my talk in was the very [...]

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William Cowper, The Winter Nosegay, and Willoughby’s Return

It’s snowing again today in Barnet; the sky is as grey as the plump breasts of the woodpigeons that strut about outside in the garden looking for their breakfast. Increasingly, I am reminded of Narnia, and C.S. Lewis’s magical, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and wonder if winter will be here forever. There [...]

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A Valentine Snippet from Willoughby’s Return, a Sense and Sensibility Sequel

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here is a snippet from Willoughby’s Return. I wanted this book to be as much Margaret’s story as Marianne’s and I thought it high time she started to enjoy herself by attending balls and meeting young men. Colonel Brandon’s sister and family have recently returned to Whitwell and his nephew, Henry [...]

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Review of Willoughby’s Return from Austenesque

Thank you to Meredith Esparza of Austenesque Reviews for her review of Willoughby’s Return! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars ***** “Sense and Sensibility” is such a lovely, honest, and entertaining novel; it such a shame that not many authors have attempted to compose a sequel for it. I have greatly enjoyed “Colonel Brandon’s Diary” [...]

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A Review for Willoughby’s Return from Book Eater

Here’s a review from Odessa at Book Eater. Sequels, prequels, paraliterature; we see it everywhere, especially in regard to Austen. I am often skeptical, but when I saw Jane Odiwe (author of Lydia Bennet’s Story) had a new sequel to Sense and Sensibility I thought I’d give it a read. I’m glad I did. Unlike [...]

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Researching Willoughby’s Return!

One of the things I enjoy about writing my Austen sequels is the research I have to do for each novel. I love to set each major scene giving clues to how places looked at the time, as well as considering sounds and smells! Jane Austen did not devote much of her writing to descriptions [...]

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Mr Willoughby – is it possible to resist him?

I was very kindly invited to guest blog on Book Nerd Extraordinaire Blogspot. Here’s what Jaime Huff has to say about Willoughby’s Return followed by my guest post. ‘I have been enjoying the selection of Jane Austen sequels, and Willoughby’s Return by Jane Odiwe is right there leading the pack. Marianne, in my opinion, was [...]

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Lucy Ferrars writes a letter!

In celebration of the publication of Willoughby’s Return, Vic (from Jane Austen Today) and I have decided to write a series of posts as Jane Austen characters from Sense and Sensibility. Recently, Lucy Ferrars wrote a letter to Elinor Ferrars – Vic is writing as Lucy and my response shows Elinor’s thoughts and point of [...]

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Willoughby’s Return Interview with Serena from Savvy, Verse and Wit

Well, I’ve come to the end of my blog tour – I’m feeling a little bit sad, it’s been so lovely to ‘meet’ and hear from everyone who has made comments and entered the competitions. Thank you to all who have interviewed me and spent time reviewing Willoughby’s Return, I greatly appreciate all your efforts [...]

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Willoughby’s Return, Fresh Fiction and Lyme Regis

You can find me guest blogging on Fresh Fiction today talking about descriptions of Georgian dress in my books. I’ve been very busy this last fortnight mostly talking about my book! Here’s my chat with Naida from The Bookworm. Thank you Naida for inviting me to talk about my about my favourite Austen novel, and [...]

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