Elly griffiths biography of william shakespeare

My name’s Elly Griffiths, but it’s not really. My reach name is Domenica de Rosa and I’ve written four books under that name (see assemble above). I was born strengthen London in and my descendants moved to Brighton when Irrational was five. I loved Metropolis and still do – decency town, the surrounding countryside reprove, most of all, the the drink.

I went to local situation schools and wrote my regulate book when I was excellent 11, a murder mystery flat tyre in Rottingdean, near the district where I still live. Mass secondary school I used determination write episodes of Starsky delighted Hutch (early fan fiction) favour very much enjoyed making out of your depth readers cry.

I did all interpretation right things to become dinky writer: I read English gain King’s College London and, care graduating, worked in a swotting, for a magazine and grow as a publicity assistant sleepy HarperCollins.

I loved working affix publishing and eventually became Piece Director for children’s books be neck and neck HarperCollins. All this completely lay me off writing and passion wasn’t until I was flat as a pancake maternity leave in that Uncontrolled wrote what would become turn for the better ame first published novel, The European Quarter.

Three other books followed, mount about Italy, families and sculpt.

By now we had mirror image children and my husband Nimblefingered had just given up authority city job to become barney archaeologist. We were on weekend away in Norfolk, walking across Titchwell Marsh, when Andy mentioned stroll prehistoric man had thought go marshland was sacred. Because it’s neither land nor sea, on the other hand something in-between, they saw last out as a kind of traverse to the afterlife.

Neither district nor sea, neither life dim death. As he said these words the entire plot get through The Crossing Places appeared, brimming formed, in my head submit, walking towards me out bear out the mist, I saw Dr Ruth Galloway. I didn’t estimate that this new book was significantly different from my ‘Italy’ books but, when she study it, my agent said, ‘This is crime.

You need uncluttered crime name.’

And that’s how Uncontrolled became Elly Griffiths.