Author Archive: Pamela Holmes

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Why I Ended Up Writing What I Knew

Why I Ended Up Writing What I Knew

They say a writer writes best about what they know, and I have followed this dictum in my second novel, Wyld Dreamers. It’s broadly based on the years I lived in the English countryside in the 1970s. Milking cows, baking bread and hay-making, I fell in love with it all and became what some people […]

October 4, 2018 | By | Reply More
The Huntingfield Paintress

The Huntingfield Paintress

Imagine it. You are a vicar’s wife living in a tiny Suffolk village in the 1850s. You are expected to serve tea to neighbours, to be modestly attired in a boned corset and full skirt and from time to time, to take a basket of provisions to a local family in distress. That’s about it. […]

March 27, 2017 | By | Reply More