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My name is Helen Callaghan and I write fiction whenever I’m left unsupervised. I live in Guildford amongst teetering piles of books.

I’ve always written, it’s my one constant. I was at various points a student nurse, barmaid and drama student. Eventually I settled into bookselling, working as a fiction specialist and buyer for a variety of bookshops, and did that for nearly ten years. In the end I became restless and studied for A-levels at night school. I achieved a place at Cambridge University as a mature student, where I studied Archaeology.

My debut novel, Dear Amy (2016), was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller. Everything is Lies followed in 2018 and Night Falls, Still Missing in 2020. My latest novel, The Drowning Girls, was published i
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Helen Callaghan Hi there, and sorry got the delay in replying! Thanks so much - I'm delighted you're enjoying the books! I do indeed have a new novel coming out next …moreHi there, and sorry got the delay in replying! Thanks so much - I'm delighted you're enjoying the books! I do indeed have a new novel coming out next year. It is set in Cornwall and involves divers on a shipwreck. It doesn't have a title yet but the minute it does I will be posting it on Goodreads!(less)
Helen Callaghan Not yet, but fingers crossed - would love to see it as a movie one day! :)
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“it had been tough, horribly tough, and humiliating and isolating and all the rest.”
Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy

“Morningstar was a grande dame, beautiful and luxurious but with arthritic bones that snapped and popped as we crossed her floorboards or clung to her bannisters.”
Helen Callaghan, Everything Is Lies

“There are reasons children are not allowed to vote or be left unsupervised for long.”
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“Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain forever.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is must we ever be.
And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that is not heaven.”
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
Omar Khayyám

“I mean, what can you say about how you write books? What I mean is, first you’ve got to think of something, and when you’ve thought of it you’ve got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That’s all. It would have taken me just three minutes to explain that, and then the Talk would have been ended and everyone would have been very fed up. I can’t imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author’s business to write, not talk.”
Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly

“Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.”
Ian McEwan, The Child in Time

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Carole Tyrrell Welcome aboard Helen - my you do read a wide range of books - I'm hoping to find some inspiration from Goodreads friends


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