She had written bad poetry and gushing diaries as a teenager and worked as an editor and features writer for a magazine even though she always harbored dreams of becoming an author. It is not surprising that Kayte Nunn would become an author since writing had always been something she did. As an adult, she often tried to find jobs that had more writing until she gathered enough courage to start penning fiction novels. Kayte said that finding Jilly Cooper remains one of the happiest moments of her teenage years. She thus graduated from pony books to the likes of John Wiyndham and Solzhenitsyn. When she went to boarding school, she managed to read everything in the junior library and had to get special permission to be allowed to proceed to the senior library. She would usually find cereal packets while taking breakfast and sometimes raid her parents bookshelves looking to find something to read. She also had an enduring love for stories and books and a hunger for reading. Since she was a child, she had been known for writing angst ridden diaries, short stories and terrible poetry. During this time, she worked as the editor of the Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine since she had more than twenty years of experience in publishing.

a mystery that is so compelling I found myself racing towards the final pages.Kayte Nunn is a historical and general fiction author that has lived in the United States and England and then spent more than two decades in Sydney Australia. 'The stories of three fascinating women weave seamlessly together in this atmospheric book set against the sumptuous backdrop of the eighteenth-century silk trade. 'This spellbinding story intertwines three strong, fearless women in the pursuit of fulfilling their dreams' Family Circle

'A haunting, atmospheric novel that is near- impossible to put down' SALLY HEPWORTH An exceptional gothic mystery' Woman's Day 'The ghostly stories of three women who had all spent time at a mysterious boarding school are beautifully woven together in this spellbinding tale. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the silk house. In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention. In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant.

She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past. The Top-Ten bestselling story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret.Īustralian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history.

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