Lesley is an author of historical sagas. Having previously written sagas set around the time of the First World War, she ventured into the Second World War period with her fifth book, The Wartime Bookshop . Originally from the north west of England (Manchester), Lesley's home is now Hertfordshire where The Wartime Bookshop 's fictional village of Churchwood is set. Lesley is thrilled to have enjoyed success in competitions as varied as crime writing to writing for children. She is particularly honoured to have won the Festival of Romance New Talent Award, the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Trophy and to have been twice shortlisted in the UK Romantic Novel Awards (RONAs).