Welcome to Susanna Bavin's Website.
I am a saga writer living on the beautiful North Wales coast, but I am originally from Manchester, which is where my books are set.
I am represented by Camilla Shestopal of Shesto Literary.
I also write as Polly Heron and as Maisie Thomas. I am on Facebook as Maisie.
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Latest News:
I have finished the first round of edits on Home Front Girls book 5, A Baby for the Home Front Girls, and I've sent those back to my editor. I have also started writing the second book in the Wartime Hotel series.
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Here's a lovely picture that I hope you'll love - books 4 and 5 of the Home Front Girls series side by side in the Saga Chart. Both are now available to be pre-ordered. Here are the links: book 4 Wedding and book 5 Baby.
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And if you a KU reader, you may also like to know that The Deserter's Daughter, as well as all of my Surplus Girls books written as Polly Heron - The Surplus Girls, The Surplus Girls' Orphans, Christmas with the Surplus Girls and New Beginnings for the Surplus Girls - are also available on Kindle Unlimited. Here is the Surplus Girls page link, which includes KU. h
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A New Home at the Wartime Hotel now has its own page here on my website. Do take a look by clicking on the tab.
* * * * Huge thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered A Wedding for the Home Front Girls. If you haven't, the Kindle version can be pre-ordered through this link: https://geni.us/B0DPHVQWB3cover The book will also be available in paperback, but that can't be pre-ordered yet. I'll let you know when it can be.
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My Blog
In this week's blog, I'm delighted to show you some quotes from NetGalley reviews of A Wedding for the Home Front Girls.
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The Home Front Girls series is set in and around a salvage depot, so in this blog, I take a look at salvage - what we would today call recycling - on the Home Front in the Second World War.
Here is the link to the series page on Amazon.
Books 1, 2 and 3 are available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. Books 4 and 5 can currently be pre-ordered on Kindle. Their paperback versions will be available in due course. Once published (in May and September), they will also be available via Kindle Unlimited. |
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Susanna Bavin Sagas
I have written four stand-alone sagas:
The Deserter's Daughter and A Respectable Woman, both set in the 1920s; The Sewing Room Girl, a Victorian saga; and The Poor Relation, which is set in Edwardian times.
The Deserter's Daughter is available on Kindle Unlimited. Link to my author page on Amazon.
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Writing as Polly Heron.
| As Polly Heron, I write The Surplus Girls 1920s saga series about young women striving for independence after the Great War. |  |
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Surplus girls were that generation of young woman who, because of the loss of life on the battlefields of the First World War, missed out on the opportunity to marry - which was, of course, seen as the purpose of a woman's life at that time. Instead, they suddenly found themselves in the position of having to support themselves for a lifetime, and without the necessary education and training behind them.
The four Surplus Girls novels in order are:
Christmas with the Surplus Girls
New Beginnings for the Surplus Girls
 | The first three Surplus Girls books are also available in a single volume on Kindle. |
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Writing as Maisie Thomas
As Maisie Thomas I write The Railway Girls saga series about the brave women and girls working on Britain's railways during the Second World War from early in 1940 until D Day in June 1944.
Here is the link to my Maisie page on Amazon. |  |
The Railway Girls in order are:
2. Secrets of the Railway Girls
4. Christmas with the Railway Girls
6. A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls
7. Courage of the Railway Girls
8. Christmas Wishes for the Railway Girls
9. Springtime with the Railway Girls
To read the blurbs and see the bookcovers, please click on the Maisie Thomas Books tab over on the left.
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Finding me online:
Here are my Amazon author pages for me writing as Susanna and as Polly and Maisie.
And here is my Twitter link for Susanna - and here are Polly's and Maisie's.
And you can find me on Facebook on my Maisie Thomas author page for the latest information about all my books - Susanna's and Polly's as well as Maisie's. I also share snippets I've found in my research as well as other things I hope my readers will enjoy. As a community, every weekend we share what we're currently reading. We're a friendly lot, so do join us!
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A Selection of Popular Blogse take a look at my latest blog to find ways to order Springtime with the Railw
 | In this blog, I wrote about choosing names for book-characters and what happens when names are too similar.
And in this blog I'm following the same theme of names. Here, you can find out what happened when changing a character's name involved creating a whole new person. |
Have you ever wondered about all the work done on the Home Front to keep people safe? In an earlier blog, I take a look at the work of the ARP - Air Raid Precautions. You may not realise the large number of different and very important jobs this covered. I hope you'll enjoy my blog on the subject.
In an earlier blog, I explain something of the planning process that lay behind The Surplus Girls series; and also take a close look at Belinda, the heroine of book 1.
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In a very popular blog, I looked at a Railway Girls character who captured readers' hearts from the moment she first appeared on the page.
To read about lovely Dot Green, click here. |  |
 | And here is another very popular Railway Girls blog - this time concentrating on Joan. Click here. |
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A Look at My Bookshelves:
These are some of the books that help me write my books.
| The history of costume has been a great interest of mine for many years and here are some of the books that I refer to not just when I'm writing but also for pleasure. |  |
 | This dictionary of words that entered the language in the 20th Century has been invaluable to me. |
| These are the railway books that have helped me write the Railway Girls series. |  |
Here are some of my Second World War books:
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| This cookery book - which a present to me on my 21st birthday - has proved invaluable as a reference tool. |  |
 | Here are some of the books that helped provide meals in my Railway Girls books and Home Front Girls books. |
| Sometimes a couple of sentences is all it takes. A couple of lines from this book of oral history ended up inspiring a whole chapter of The Railway Girls in Love. (If you're wondering, it's the chapter involving the incendiary and the dustbin lid.) |  |
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Living by the sea:
I love living in Llandudno. We've been here for eleven years now, but that "Wow! We really live here," feeling never goes away.
Take a look at some of my favourite photos by clicking on the Llandudno tab.
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