About Flora Dunn

​I wrote my first book when I was five. It was about a cow and a bed because those were words I knew how to spell. Then I wrote ‘The Crazy Book’ about some kids who went back in time and lots of stories about bunnies.
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I fell in love with romance when I read MM Kaye’s The Ordinary Princess, a touching children’s book about a sassy runaway princess called Amy, which was one of the first books to turn traditional fairy stories on their head. And later, Jane Austen and all the classics, until I finally picked up a Mills and Boon in my twenties and my fate was sealed.
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Love stories, whether about romance, friendship or camaraderie, how we feel about other people, how we treat them, how we make mistakes and are forgiven and learn to forgive in our turn, are at the very heart of our human existence. You can tell those stories in a light-hearted way but that doesn’t change the depth of the message that true love is the greatest of all the virtues. Even The Bible is a love story between God and his people (and that ending when you think it’s all over, but it isn’t, is just the best plot twist ever).
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​My stories are set in and around the modern-day fictional village of Tillingham in Jane Austen Country in leafy mid-Hampshire.
​The first book in the Tillingford Hall series is Summer at Tillingford Hall (published August 2024). A Little Treat on Honey Street, about Laura and her quest to save the Tillingham community shop and Christmas at Tillingford Hall are both scheduled for publication in 2025.
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I write from a posh shed set in a beautiful garden in South-West London. I live in with two cats, three teenagers and my husband, a hunky gardener with a growing collection of tractors. When I’m not writing, working as a charity fundraiser or looking after my family, I’m to be found in the kitchen, baking cakes (which I try not to eat) and cooking home-grown veg (which I do).
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