Karen Mason was born in London in 1971 and still resides there. She has been writing since childhood and won her first accolade aged seven when she came second in the Blue Peter ‘Write a Limerick for Goldie the Dog’ competition. Fifteen years later she came second in the now defunct Me! Magazine, ‘Write a Blockbuster’ competition with an early novel called Violet’s Children. She first published her novel Summerset in 2008 and has gone on to release Mad About the Boy, Two Become One, Winner Takes it All – the sequel to Summerset, Mrs Osbourne Regrets, The True Tale of Jezebel Cole, Only You, The Line of Passion Trilogy, Never Forget,Scorpio Rising - a Phillipa Hardcastle mystery, Paradise Lost and The Exciting Life - the second book in the Never Forget saga. Spring 2013 will see the release of Never Tear Us Apart, the latest in the Never Forget Saga, and summer 2013 will see the release of 'Teenage Kicks' - book two of the Phillipa Hardcastle Mysteries. The Lucky Ones - book four in the Never Forget saga will be released late autumn 2013.

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• Winner Takes it All - Part 3
• Winner Takes It All - Part 2
• Winner Takes it All - Part 1
• Mrs Osbourne Regrets

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• Brizecombe Hall on Feb. 21, 2012
  
  I really enjoyed this story. A weird amalgam of Jane Austen and Jane Eyre (my favourite book), it worked when it shouldn't. At times it was close to rip-off (Mrs Travers the kindly Mrs Fairfax), Ms Newcombe is obviously Blanche Ingram. A lot of Austen's heroines are the daughters of parsons who are not entitled to marry into the landed gentry. But despite this the story was engaging and kept me reading until the end, I think if the author put her mind to it and came up with an original story, but written in the same style, she could achieve something special, especially if she commited to a full-length Victorian novel. I would certainly read it. I was rather disappointed when Brizecombe Hall came to it's rather abrupt end, and would have preferred it after all her months of longing, we could have had more of an insight into Ann's feelings at the end.But all in all, a very good effort.
  
• Love across the pages on Feb. 27, 2012
  
  For me this could have done with some work. The editing is sloppy in places eg 'Towering over him, he never looked more menacing'. The 'hero' seems a bit of a pig to me and I would have preferred some back story to find out why Virginia loves him so much. But on saying that, it did hold my interest until the end.
  
• Elizabeth Clansham on April 09, 2012
  
  My first thought about Elizabeth Clansham is that it was written in the wrong era. Take out the sex, bad language and modern references, and it would make a fine historical novel. Indeed the old-fashioned names of Miss Clansham's pupils made me keep thinking it was set many years before. The book reads like a soap opera, full of characters with inter-weaving stories and this was where I became a little confused and frustrated. To me the most interesting characters were Elizabeth herself, her relationship with her uptight neighbour, and his slutty ex-girlfriend and her long-suffering daughter, and no sooner would I start getting into their stories, then I would be disturbed by irritating schoolchildren and fledgling lesbians. I am sure the whole thing would play out far better on screen than in a book and I would recommend that Chapman considers writing for television, as to maintain a story with so many characters, without getting confusing is an admirable achievement and one I think she should take further. For myself, I would have preferred there to be only one or two main stories running through the book, with the other characters as bit players rather than whole chunks dedicated to them. But if you don't mind this sort of storytelling then you will find Elizabeth Clansham well-written and engaging.