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Ann Victoria Roberts
Biography
Ann Victoria Roberts
is the author of five historical novels, including The Master's Tale, published in September 2011. She is married to Captain Peter Roberts, Master of the Heritage Steamship SS Shieldhall, based in Southampton.
Ann was born in York, educated at Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Otley, and met her husband Peter while still at school. She went on to study art while he went away to sea in the Merchant Navy, so their romance was conducted mainly by letter. They married, lived in Otley, West Yorkshire, for 15 years. They had two children, and travelled extensively as a family while the children were still young.
A long chain of coincidence accompanied the research and writing of Louisa Elliott, published in 1989 by Chatto&Windus. This big, rich, Victorian novel of life in 1890s York was very successful, and Ann found fame as 'the housewife who became a best-selling novelist'.
Ann also published Liam's Story, Dagger Lane and Moon Rising. Then, in 2000, Ann and her husband moved to Southampton. Ann found herself writing mainly non-fiction until the day Peter came home from a visit to the Southampton Pilots’ Office, and told her that he’d just been looking at the Dockmaster’s Log Book for the year 1912, and its extraordinary implications.
The news was so exciting that Ann asked if she could take a look herself. What she saw and understood from those entries for March and April 1912 became the inspiration for her latest novel, The Master's Tale, published in September 2011.
More details about Ann Victoria Roberts can be found on her website: www.annvictoriaroberts.co.uk
is the author of five historical novels, including The Master's Tale, published in September 2011. She is married to Captain Peter Roberts, Master of the Heritage Steamship SS Shieldhall, based in Southampton.
Ann was born in York, educated at Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Otley, and met her husband Peter while still at school. She went on to study art while he went away to sea in the Merchant Navy, so their romance was conducted mainly by letter. They married, lived in Otley, West Yorkshire, for 15 years. They had two children, and travelled extensively as a family while the children were still young.
A long chain of coincidence accompanied the research and writing of Louisa Elliott, published in 1989 by Chatto&Windus. This big, rich, Victorian novel of life in 1890s York was very successful, and Ann found fame as 'the housewife who became a best-selling novelist'.
Ann also published Liam's Story, Dagger Lane and Moon Rising. Then, in 2000, Ann and her husband moved to Southampton. Ann found herself writing mainly non-fiction until the day Peter came home from a visit to the Southampton Pilots’ Office, and told her that he’d just been looking at the Dockmaster’s Log Book for the year 1912, and its extraordinary implications.
The news was so exciting that Ann asked if she could take a look herself. What she saw and understood from those entries for March and April 1912 became the inspiration for her latest novel, The Master's Tale, published in September 2011.
More details about Ann Victoria Roberts can be found on her website: www.annvictoriaroberts.co.uk
Where to find Ann Victoria Roberts online
Website: http://www.annvictoriaroberts.co.uk