Her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her and the enduring guilt of it has weighed on her since that day.

In After the Eclipse, sixteen years ago during the darkest point of a solar eclipse, eleven year old Olive was abducted from the town of Bishop’s Green and never seen again. The worst would be to have to re-live that even over again. She started thinking about how horrible it would be to have a beautiful natural event spoiled or wiped from your mind by something awful. The inspiration for this story came from watching the solar eclipse in 2015.

The first novel that was published by Ms. She does, however, excel in writing novels, set in gothic mansions, about witchcraft, and about queer love. She commits houseplant-cide, killing plants if she touches them. Dorricott spent her English countryside idyllic childhood devouring fantasy books and cooking potions from her herb garden in her back yard. She also attended the City University of London and there she received recognition for her MA in Creative Writing. Dorricott grew up in central England and studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her not so subtle reason for working as a bookseller is not a surprise and probably would be like the rest of us It’s a ridiculously easy way to have access to feed our book-buying addictions. Her writing is mostly gothic and inclusive stories and her process includes drinking copious amounts of tea.įran has a day-job as a bookseller, working in the Waterstones branch in Derby. Based in Derby, England, Fran Dorricott (aka Francesca May) lives with family, cat and dogs.

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