Harriet Smart
About me
Harriet Smart decided to become a novelist at the age of 10 while sitting in the bay window of her grandparent’s flat overlooking the Tay and Broughty Ferry Castle. She then planned out a three volume family saga despite her family’s suggestions to perhaps start with short stories. She then wrote many, many chapter ones while at school and university, but never managed a chapter two.
When, twelve years later, she found herself unemployed and again in a house over-looking the Tay, that she sat down and actually finished a novel. This was “A Garland of Vows”, an epic family saga about the life and loves of a Victorian architect, published by Headline. Since then she has written and published seven more novels but still has failed to master the short story. Her latest novel is “The Butchered Man” an historical mystery set in 1840.
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France only speaking French. Yes. #Eurovision
From my website
My love hate relationship with the Internet
Sometimes it feels to me that the Internet is like a stray animal who has come to live in my house. Sometimes it is the most charming, useful, companion and I cannot imagine how I ever managed without it. At … Continue reading →
Men in wigs and dresses to die for.
I have a bit of a crush on Peter Lely. In fact I’m a bit confused about it. Here is the gentleman of whom I speak – his self portrait of 1660, from the National Portrait Gallery. Not exactly my … Continue reading →