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Elizabeth Hanbury is a best selling author of warm and witty Regency romance for UK and US publishers.  She is also a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and Society of Authors.

She drinks too much tea and is addicted to cake, long walks and anything that makes her laugh. Elizabeth lives in a village in the heart of England and writes whenever she can sneak away to her desk.

Praise for Elizabeth

‘A Regency writer of real skill, depth, wit and charm’ - Nicola Cornick, USA Today best selling author

‘A brilliant read’ - Tifferz and her sisters book reviews

‘Swoonworthy kisses, sizzling chemistry and action that leaps off the page at you’ - Booksaresanity reviews

‘Elizabeth Hanbury’s writing is wonderful’ - Bookishly Attentive

‘A highly entertaining read’ - Historical Novels Review

‘Funny, tender, evocative, atmospheric and brimming with plenty of charm’ - RedRosesforAuthors reviews

Quick fire question round…

Tea or coffee:

Tea.


Favourite drink:

Winter – damson gin, Summer – Pimm’s No. 1 cup.


Favourite colour:
Purple


Favourite dish:

Delia Smith’s Chicken with sherry vinegar and tarragon sauce


Favouite dessert:

Cheesecake. Any sort of cake!


Favourite chocolate:

Lindor, Thornton’s Viennese Truffles or Hotel Chocolat Just Truffles.


Best Quality:

Kindness.


Worst defect:

Leaving things in the wrong place and not being able to find them afterwards.


Favourite literary heroes:

Captain Wentworth, Gabriel Oak, Sir Waldo Hawkridge.

Favourite literary heroines:
Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Eyre, Harriet Vane and Miss Marple


Manuscripts – longhand or type?: Type


Best ideas come when I’m:

Lying in a warm bubble bath or people watching.


Planner or seat-of-the-pants writer:

Bit of both.


My family think my writing:

Keeps me out of trouble.


Favourite writing snack:

Chocolate for inspiration, grapes for the waistline


Fantasy dinner party guests:

Jane Austen, Duke of Wellington, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Sir David Attenborough, George Bryan (Beau) Brummell, Maria Fitzherbert,  Georgette Heyer, Leonardo da Vinci, Professor Brian Cox, Ada Lovelace, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stephen Fry, Groucho Marx, P.G. Wodehouse, Spike Milligan … how many more can I have? 
Music provided by George Frederic Handel and AC/DC.