Valerie Thornhill studied at Cambridge University before living through student protests while at the Sorbonne in Paris and during the Red Brigades era in Rome where, inadvertently, she became entangled in the underworld. She has written since childhood, followed in the footsteps of five generations of her family in India to travel worldwide and has taught in America, Asia and Europe. Her publications include a collection of short stories, The Children of Kumbhalgarh, a novella, The Tycoon’s Tale; and Cynthia Loves her Fiat 500, a story of ‘swinging Rome’ in the Sixties. She gardens speculatively, creates outside sculpture from random natural objects and divides her time between Yorkshire and Tuscany.

Excerpts from In Restoration and more information on - www.valeriethornhill.org.uk

Look at the farmhouse and its unique garden where In Restoration was written and which are featured in the novel www.mulino.org.uk

More information about the author and her other publications can be found in www.valeriethornhill.org.uk

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Presentations of In Restoration 2009 - 2010

Powerpoint presentation followed by a reception at the British School, Via Gramsci, Rome

Book presentation and signing in Waterstone’s, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Powerpoint presentation followed by a reception at the Tuscan Sun Festival, Cortona, Italy

Powerpoint presentation followed by a reception at the Writers’ and Artists’ Center, Civitella Ranieri, Umbria

Book presentation and signing in Waterstone’s, Guildford, Surrey

Book presentation and signing in Waterstone’s, Hull, Eat Yorkshire

June 2011: Shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize:

Coming engagements 2011 - 2012

5 August at 3.30 p.m. Valerie Thornhill has been invited to return for a talk about the writer’s garden where In Restoration was written, followed by a reception at the Tuscan Sun Festival, and a visit to the garden near Cortona, Italy (details TuscanSunFestival.com)

Saturday, 1 October at 10.30 a.m. Illustrated talk on ‘A Yorkshire Writer’s Garden in Tuscany, inspired by Emperor Hadrian’s Garden of Memories’ with readings, discussion and book signing at Scarborough Library, North Yorkshire

2012

Thursday, 29 March, 2012 at 5.30 p.m. Illustrated talk on ‘A Yorkshire Writer’s Garden in Tuscany’, inspired by Emperor Hadrian’s ‘Garden of Memories’ with readings, discussion and book signing at Beverley Library, East Yorkshire

Thursday, 12 April at 7 p.m. Illustrated talk on ‘A Yorkshire Writer’s Garden in Tuscany, inspired by Emperor Hadrian’s Garden of Memories’ with readings, discussion and book signing at Hull Library, East Yorkshire

RECENT BOOK REVIEWS AND FEATURE ARTICLES

Valley Life, Tuscany 2009 click here to read

Valley Life, Tuscany 2010 click here to read

Hull Daily Mail, July 2011

The Journal, Yorkshire. (September 2011 issue) Illustrated article about Valerie Thornhill