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PAULA’S NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS HARDY THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN IS NOW PUBLISHED

“Dazzlingly detailed and illuminating … beautifully observed” – Country Life

“Absorbing … a treat for Hardy fans and unhappy wives” – The Times

“Excels in searching out unseen corners and establishes the ties between life and literature that Hardy denied” – New Statesman

“Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy created some of literature’s most enduring female characters, but it is the real women who shaped the life of the tortured genius that this book vividly reanimates” – Independent

“A fuller picture than the standard ‘cradle to grave’ biographies” – Literary Review

PAULA’S ACCLAIMED BIOGRAPHY OF BARBARA PYM WAS PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK IN THE UK IN APRIL 2022 & IN HARDBACK IN THE USA IN JUNE 2022

HER NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF MARLENE DIETRICH IS IN PAPERBACK UNDER A NEW TITLE

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Paula’s debut novel, Look to your Wife, is also in paperback.

The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and why she is a hit in Hollywood, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice

No. 1 International Bestseller Kick is in paperback

The e-book of Belle was a New York Times Top Ten Bestseller