title: Victoria's Promise: A Newport Ladies Book Club Novel
author:  Julie Wright 
description: Julie Wright was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She's lived in LA, Boston, and the literal middle of nowhere (don't ask). She wrote her first book when she was fifteen and has since written sixteen novelsnine of which were traditionally published. Julie won the Whitney Award for Best Romance in 2010 with her novel Cross My Heart. She is agented by Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger, Inc. She has one husband, three kids, one dog, and a varying amount offish, frogs, and salamanders (depending on attrition).She loves writing, reading, traveling, speaking at schools, hiking, playing with her kids, and watching her husband make dinner. She used to speak fluent Swedish but now speaks well enough only to cuss out her children in public settings. She hates mayonnaise.
zlib_text: **LINDA FINLAY** lives on the Devonshire coast and is the author of eight
  novels. From lace-making to willow weaving, each one is based on a local craft
  which, in order to write authentically and place herself firmly in the shoes
  of her heroines, she has learnt to do herself. However, it is people and their
  problems that make for a good story and, with so much interesting material to
  work with, it is easy for Linda to let her imagination run as wild as the
  rugged West Country landscape which has inspired her writing.
  
  Also by Linda Finlay
  
   _The Royal Lacemaker_
  
   _The Girl with the Red Ribbon_
  
   _A Family For Christmas_
  
   _The Sea Shell Girl_
  
   _Monday’s Child_
  
   _Orphans and Angels_
  
   _The Flower Seller_
  
   _The Bonbon Girl_
  
  The Girl with the Amber Comb
  
  Linda Finlay
  
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  ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES
  
  Copyright
  
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  First published in Great Britain by HQ in