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IN CONVERSATION WITH Stacey HALLS

Hailed as one of the most exciting new historical novelists to emerge in recent years, Stacey Halls’ lyrical writing style is simply mesmerising – with her debut novel The Familiars the biggest-selling hardback debut novel of 2019. Her new novel, Mrs England, follows Ruby, a Norland Nanny who goes to work in the home of a wealthy Edwardian couple where nothing is as it seems. Stacey lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and their dog.

‘I can’t start writing until I have an idea of where it’s set’

The idea came to me instantly, as I had a connection with the area. I

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