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Rachel Billington has published twenty novels and nine books for children, as well as several non-fiction works. She is also a regular journalist, feature writer and reviewer. She is co-editor of Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners and a Vice-President of English PEN. She has four children and five grandchildren and lives in London and Dorset.A <b>beautifully written</b> tale ... 4 Stars
WOMAN'S OWN
One hallmark of a Billington book is <b>elegant, apparently effortless plotting</b>. ... THE SPACE BETWEEN, <b>told with wit and insight</b>, leaves an overall effect that is light but never lightweight
INDEPENDENT
Billington's perceptive portrait of the complications of modern life is <b>a Jane Austen for the 21st century</b>
GOOD BOOK GUIDE
This is a good story, told by a sympathetic, compassionate and wise writer ... this leaves one full of admiration for the author: <b>she is in the front rank of those who write of women's lives</b>
THE TABLET
Despite its pacy and occasionally steamy<b> </b>content, this is a quaint, laid-back novel <b>perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon</b>
YOU MAGAZINE
When the denouement finally comes, with bullets and literal cliffhangers, I was unaccountably reminded of hours of enjoyment reading about the famous five on Kirrin Island, although Rachel Billington's heroine has graduated from lashings of ginger beer to glasses of champagne and from egg sandwiches to seabass. Nevertheless, the same sense of enjoyment in both skullduggery and the good things in life remain
SPECTATOR