Liz has always surrounded herself with books.

As a child, she was always to be found with her head in one and she still has a bookcase full of her childhood favourites to this day. (As a thirteen-year-old she read The Lord of the Rings twelve times in a row, cover to cover!) All this reading led, unsurprisingly, to a degree in English Literature, (and another book-case full of books) and then a job as a cataloguer of early printed books for a major university library. This meant spending hours sitting in a beautiful, ancient building looking at antique leather-bound tomes – although as so many of them turned out to be rather boring volumes of sermons she wasn’t tempted to read all of them.

Children (and cats) interrupted her bibliographic career, and having given up library work Liz found herself doing more reading, and increasingly she found herself enjoying novels by writers like Trisha Ashley, Katie Fforde, Milly Johnson and Lucy Diamond. Inspired by their example, she started writing fiction and hasn’t stopped since. The Little Church by the Sea and The Manor on the Moors were published by Manatee Books.

When Covid struck, Liz had to abandon research on a novel set in Middlesbrough in 1996 when the reference library closed, and she took the opportunity to write a new novel set in the Lake District. She is also co-author (with Cath Turnbull) of two pantomime scripts and they are working on a play with the working title Where Angels Sing about munitions workers in the Second World War.