From a young age Julia Sutton has loved creative writing. She has written poetry, children’s stories and most recently women’s contemporary fiction. The School of Dreams is the first novel in a planned series of books and has taken just under a year to complete. Julia spent her evenings and weekends working on her novel, scribbling in notebooks and tapping away on her computer. She was overjoyed to finish it, and ecstatic to be offered a publishing contract with Next Chapter. She received the contract on her 44th birthday and celebrated with a bottle of bubbly.
Julia was raised in Wolverhampton, England and happily still lives there with her husband and two children. She loves travelling abroad, but is always glad to be back home with her friends and family.
Star Sullivan has dreamt of living in London since being a rebellious teenager, but the reality is not as glamorous as she’d anticipated. She is stressed in her position of magazine journalist and her love life is failing due to a commitment phobic boyfriend.
The first year at Chattlesbury University is coming to an end. Five students have become friends, and their lives are progressing both academically and personally.
Little Hamsden is a picturesque town nestled in the English countryside. But when a young girl disappears, tensions run high and a private investigator is called in to help solve the case.
Straight-laced Rose loves books, swimming and the folk choir. So when her gregarious best friend arrives home from a ten year around-the-world trip, her safe, comfortable existence is thrown into disarray.
Sophie is a beautiful housewife on the brink of a midlife crisis, unhappy with her errant husband. Juliette, a romantic and passionate optimist, struggles to make ends meet in a society that stereotypes single mothers.