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Hi, I’m Helen.
I’ve been writing stories and poetry since I was in primary school. I grew up in London and Devon, in England. I had two coming-of-age books – Primrose Hill (4.5 stars on Amazon.co.uk) and Sky HIgh (4.5 stars on Amazon.co.uk)– published by Faber and Faber before moving to Ireland (where my husband Derek is from),and that is where we live now with twins Imogen and Seán and their older sister Molly. (Older brother Jack lives in Taiwan, where his late and much lamented wife Rachel died in 2016.) Our traditional Irish cottage is very old and we cook our Sunday dinners on the range. In the spring our tree-lined garden is filled with bluebells and swallows, and we live by a long field that leads straight down to a beautiful sandy beach and the sea. I often take my horse Buffer out on the beach with Charlie, our golden retriever, running along behind us. When everyone else has left for work and school, I get to my desk and enter the fantasy world of my fiction while the dog chases rabbits in his sleep and the cat sits on the windowsill 'admiring' the birds. Writers ‘write what we know’ and living in this beautiful place, the magic of the Otherworld never seems far away. But it’s not all peace and quiet. We have an open house here and living with Imogen, Seán and Molly I am constantly surrounded by teenagers – and that's the way I like it. Having teenage children and living where I do made The Changeling an obvious book to write (I’d say ‘easy’ but writing books is never that). I hope you enjoy it! My dad, Alun Falconer was a writer and movie director, so I suppose I'm keeping a family tradition going.https://www.helenfalconer.com