Rachel Hore (born 26 January 1960) is a British fiction writer, living in

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. After reading Modern History at

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, she worked at

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until moving to

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with her husband, the author

D. J. Taylor David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of Geo ...

, and three children. She now teaches creative writing and publishing at the

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. She is the author of eight novels, several of which have been ''

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'' Top Ten bestsellers.

Publications

* ''The Dream House'' (2006) * ''The Memory Garden'' (2007) * ''The Glasspainter's Daughter'' (2009), shortlisted for The

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Novel of the Year 2010. * ''A Place of Secrets'' (2010) * ''A Gathering Storm'' (2011), shortlisted for The

Historical Novel of the Year, 2012. * ''The Silent Tide'' (2013) * ''A Week In Paris'' (2014) * ''The House on Bellevue Gardens'' (2016) * ''Last Letter Home'' (2018) * ''The Love Child'' (2019) * ''A Beautiful Spy'' (2021)

References

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