Profile: Anne Thomas

About This Author

Anne lives in Taunton, Somerset. Retirement opened up all sorts of new opportunities, not least enabling her to complete her 'lockdown book': A Citadel Of Ice, which picks up the character of William Cave Thomas, the artist in her earlier books (At A Stroke: Deceit of Riches and Fortune's Spite) and tells of the journey he made to St Petersburg in 1854. Other published work includes a short story: 'The Power of Nurse Rooke' in a Chawton House anthology 'Beguiling Miss Bennet'; another short story 'Mrs Dean's Dilemma' reached 1st place in a BBC competition & was broadcast as a Morning Story - and now part of a privately published collection of short stories. Anne works as a volunteer with the West Somerset Railway - as a Ticket Inspector. Her new book is set in Dunster, the lovely village served by one of the stations along the line. 'Too Tall' is based on the life of her grandfather, who was born and brought up in Dunster. It recalls incidents from his childhood, at the turn of the 19th century, following him as he leaves the seemingly idyllic but, for him, claustrophobic Somerset countryside, to follow the railway line to a new life in the North, as the Great War is about to start.