About
Norma Curtis was born and brought up in North Wales and wrote her first short stories for a teenage magazine. Her first unpublished novel, Torchwood, was made into a screenplay and her first published novel, Living it Up, Living it Down won the Romantic Novelist Association's New Writers' Award and was chosen for the WHSmith Fresh Talent promotion. After publishing Striking a Balance and The Last Place You Look, she became chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association and it was in this capacity that she met Queen Elizabeth II at a reception at Buckingham Palace. She took an MA in prose fiction and wrote The Forgotten Guide to Happiness and A Random Act of Kindness as Sophie Jenkins. Her last two books, The Drowned Village and The Hideaway both have a historical element. The Coronation Tea Party, written on the 70th anniversary of the Queen's coronation, celebrates the warmth of courage, celebration and the uplifting royal fervour that is threaded through ordinary lives.
My Writing
Warmth, humour and optimism, and how characters show those qualities, and sometimes lose them, is a recurring theme in my stories. Love is a good subject to spend time thinking about, and loss is the opposite, fulfilment versus emptiness. We don't seem to be able to have one without the other, in fiction or in life, which is a bit of a design flaw in my opinion. But the human spirit is a wonderful thing, and courage is more moving than tears. Luckily for us, there's a lot of it around, and when I start to wonder what life's all about, love is usually the answer.
My Writing
Warmth, humour and optimism, and how characters show those qualities, and sometimes lose them, is a recurring theme in my stories. Love is a good subject to spend time thinking about, and loss is the opposite, fulfilment versus emptiness. We don't seem to be able to have one without the other, in fiction or in life, which is a bit of a design flaw in my opinion. But the human spirit is a wonderful thing, and courage is more moving than tears. Luckily for us, there's a lot of it around, and when I start to wonder what life's all about, love is usually the answer.
Previously published books
