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The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Past Encounters, published under the name Davina Blake, (2014, ) is a story set in Carnforth which features the filming of Brief Encounter at Carnforth railway station in 1944 and uncovers a husband"s wartime secrets.ĭeborah Swift, also writing as Davina Blake, is an English writer of historical fiction based in north west Lancashire. The second in the trilogy, Spirit of the Highway (2015, ) is told in the voice of the ghost of a roundhead farmer"s son who loved Katherine. Swift"s Shadow on the Highway (2014, ) is the first of The Highway Trilogy of young adult novels, and is based on the life of highwaywoman Katherine Fanshawe, also known as Lady Katherine Ferrers. ![]() A Divided Inheritance (2013, Pan, ) starts in London in 1609 but the action moves to Seville during the expulsion of the Moors and reflects this turbulent period of European history. ![]() The Gilded Lily (2012, Pan, ) follows some of the same characters but moves the location to London and considers aspects of beauty and cosmetics. Her first published novel was The Lady"s Slipper (2010, Macmillan, ), which alludes to the lady"s slipper orchid found in the Silverdale area near her home. ![]()
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