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Rachel Hore
Romance/Historical
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The Dream House (Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 2006)
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The Memory Garden (Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 2007))
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The Glass Painter’s Daughter (Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Biography
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Rachel Hore was brought up in Surrey and Hong Kong. She attended Sutton High School GDST and St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she read Modern History. Between 1983 and 2001, she worked in London book publishing, first at Cassell’s then at HarperCollins, where she became Senior Commissioning Editor, Fiction, working with authors such as Barbara Erskine, Susan Howatch, Roy Heath, Olivia Goldsmith, Jenny Colgan, Isabel Wolff and Cathy Kelly. It was there she met her husband, Norwich-born D.J. Taylor, when she oversaw the paperback edition of his first novel, Great Eastern Land. Following the birth of their third child, they moved with their three sons to Norwich, where they have lived since 2001.
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The Dream House, Rachel’s first novel, is set in London and Suffolk and explores themes of belonging to family and place arising out of the experience of ‘downshifting’. The central character, Kate, is drawn to solve a mystery from her family’s 1920s past and finds resolution in her own life. The Memory Garden is about Lamorna Cove in wild West Cornwall. As its protagonist Mel helps restore a forgotten garden in Lamorna, she uncovers a story related to the colony of artists that settled in the area in Edwardian times. The Glass Painter’s Daughter is set in the gothic backstreets of Westminster. Fran, a classical musician, returns home to run her father’s stained glass shop, and becomes embroiled in the story behind a broken angel window from a local Victorian church. The book uses art and music to explore themes of unrequited love, redemption and reconciliation. Rachel is finishing a fourth novel, which is set in Norfolk, and which will be published by Pocket Books.
- Rachel also teaches publishing courses at the UEA, and reviews books for the national press.
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