![]() ![]() ![]() Neither land nor sea, neither life nor death. Because it’s neither land nor sea, but something in-between, they saw it as a kind of bridge to the afterlife. “We were on holiday in Norfolk, walking across Titchwell Marsh, when Andy mentioned that prehistoric man had thought that marshland was sacred. ![]() ![]() Fortunately, her career in romantic literature took a crooked turn when her husband decided to give up a job in banking and retrain as an archaeologist. It is “A delicious, affectionate depiction of a British Italian family, in all its glorious complexity.” Not my cup of tea. She read English at King’s College London and, after graduating, worked in a library, for a magazine and ultimately as the Editorial Director for children’s books at HarperCollins.ĭe Rosa wrote and published her first book, The Italian Quarter, whilst pregnant with her first child. As an eleven-year-old, she wrote her first book, a murder mystery, and then at secondary school, she wrote episodes of Starsky and Hutch for her friends. Griffiths followed a textbook career path to become an author. Born in London in 1963, her family moved to Brighton - where she still lives - when she was five. Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa. ![]()
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