Helen Carey a bestselling author living and working in Pembrokeshire.
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HELEN CAREY
Bestselling Pembrokeshire author, Helen Carey is best known for her LAVENDER ROAD novels, published by Orion and set in London in the Second World War. These popular wartime sagas follow the lives of a number of characters through the war years and portray some of the courage and determination that people showed as they faced up to the trials and tribulations of that eventful period of history.
Having herself lived in London, and in various other parts of the world, Helen Carey now lives in Newport, Pembrokeshire on a small coastal farm which she and her husband run as a conservation project. She is also an artist, and has recently created a gallery out of a converted goat shed.
Not only a book author, Helen also writes travel articles and has done some scriptwriting too. As well as writing and painting, Helen now teaches on the MA Creative Writing at Trinity St David University in Carmarthen and has an author Fellowship from the Royal Literary Fund at Aberystwyth University.
Helen has had several other jobs over the years including waitress, tour guide, army officer, crude oil trader and management consultant, and she often draws on these for ideas. Her brand new crime adventure novel, SLICK DEALS, which draws on her time as an oil trader, was originally inspired by a Seatrust Dolphin Survey boat trip in Cardigan Bay.
'For some time I have wanted to set a book in Wales,' Helen says, 'and seeing an oil exploration vessel working just off the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast gave me the perfect opportunity to create an exciting crime adventure. As an author, I have always liked writing stories about ordinary people getting caught up in big dangerous issues. When I first left university I worked as an oil trader for Shell. I now consider myself to be a conservationist. Writing SLICK DEALS allowed me to explore both sides of the oil debate. Involving the cool, sleek, city girl, Ella Crossley, in her oil tycoon boss's family crisis and making her join forces with the scruffy, laid back American environmentalist, Nick Jardine, also gave me a chance to add some humour and emotional interest.'
SLICK DEALS and Helen Carey's other novels, LAVENDER ROAD, SOME SUNNY DAY and ON A WING AND A PRAYER are all now available as eBooks from Amazon Kindle, iBooks etc.
Praise for Helen Carey's novels:
'Unputdownable!' Western Telegraph
'Sparkling storytelling.' London Evening Standard
'Helen's novels, while not marketed specifically as literary fiction, are of considerable literary merit, written as they are with a lightness of touch, an emotional integrity and an historical accuracy which has brought her respect from critics and readers alike by making this period of history accessible to large audiences worldwide.' Louis de Bernières
To find out more about Helen Carey, about being an author, or for more information about her novels visit her website at:
http://www.helencareybooks.co.uk
Helen Carey's YouTube book video: http://is.gd/TqqynO
Amazon UK Helen Carey author page: http://is.gd/0IDtl3
Helen's art studio: www.thestudioatpenrallt.co.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/helencareybooks
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