Bridget M. Beauchamp

Bridget M. Beauchamp spent her childhood in Suffolk on the coast near Aldeburgh. She has fond memories of desolate shingle beaches, attractive fishing villages, quiet reed bordered waterways and huge watercolour skies. Intrigued by stories of smuggling along these coasts, told to her by her mother, who ran the local school, Bridget was inspired to include her love of nature, landscape, English literature and history in her own interpretation.

Bridget trained as a Graphic Designer in West Sussex and worked as book designer in London in the 1970’s. She moved to Cumbria in the 80’s where she raised a family and where she lives today as a retired grandmother.

Bridget enjoys painting, walking, gardening, reading and writing and has a great love of Britain, it’s rich history, culture, landscape, nature and literature. She recently published her first novel ‘Maiden of Middleham’ which is an historical romance based around the life of Richard III, set at Middleham Castle in Wensleydale and which she hopes will paint a more realistic picture of this most tragic and much maligned king, in a fusion of fact and fiction.

‘Whispers in the Shingle’ is Bridget’s second novel, which was inspired by childhood memories of Suffolk's lonely coast. She has endeavoured to conjure up life in late 18^th century coastal villages, where graceful sailing ships plied the waters of the North Sea and where poverty drove many to a life of crime, encouraged and abetted by those who benefitted from it, or were persuaded to turn a blind eye.  A fictional tale of love and loss, desire, intrigue, revenge and death, Bridget hopes 'Whispers in the Shingle' will appeal to those who love the evocative landscapes of Suffolk, from murmuring reed beds to shifting shingle banks, tales of times gone by and the lives that were shaped by their environment.