Dilly Court

Dilly Court grew up in North East London and worked as an advertising copywriter for commercial television. She is married with two grown-up children and lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband and large yellow Labrador.

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Titles: Mermaids Singing,The Dollmaker's Daughters, Tilly True, The Best of Sisters, The Cockney Sparrow, The Constant Heart (Random House)

The Constant Heart

Rosina sighed and a shiver ran up her spine. She had chosen to put it out of her mind, but she knew only too well that poverty marched alongside wealth in the great city of London. Misfortune, disease and death could strike anyone at any time. She walked on; she would not think about that now, and she would not be unhappy today. The month was May; her favourite time of the year, when the late spring sunshine warmed the cold pavements of East London and banished the pea-souper fogs into a dim memory. She had been born in May and her family name was May - the month truly did belong to her.

Thank you, Hilary, for your encouragement and invaluable advice. Your laser-like mind has the ability to go to the heart of the matter, spotting an aspiring writer’s good points as well as the bad. . . I learned more from you than all the books on How To Write.

Dilly Court