The Cheesemaker's House by Jane Cable - Book Tour
The
Cheesemaker’s House
Just think, Alice, right now Owen could be putting a hex on you!
When Alice Hart’s husband runs off with his secretary, she runs off with his dog to lick her wounds in a North Yorkshire village. Battling
with loneliness but trying
to make the best of her new start,
she soon meets her neighbours, including the drop-dead gorgeous
builder Richard Wainwright
and the kindly yet reticent cafe´ owner, Owen Maltby.
As Alice employs Richard to start renovating the barn next to her house, all is not what it seems. Why does she start seeing Owen when he clearly isn’t there? Where - or when - does the strange crying
come from? And if Owen is the village charmer, what exactly does that mean?
The Cheesemaker’s House is a gripping read, inspired
by a framed will found in the dining room of the author’s dream Yorkshire house. The previous owners explained
that the house had been built at the request of the village cheesemaker in 1726 - and that the cheesemaker was a woman. And so the historical aspect of the story was born.
Jane Cable’s novel won the Suspense & Crime category of The Alan Titchmarsh Show People’s Novelist competition, reaching the last four out of over a thousand
entries. The Cheesemaker’s House can be enjoyed by anyone who has become bored of today’s predictable boy-meets-girl romance novels.
“I desperately want to find out about Owen; a fascinating character... the gift here is to make you want to read on.”
Jeffrey Archer
EXCERPT FROM THE
CHEESEMAKER’S HOUSE
Alice
Hart moves to a Yorkshire village to start a new life following her divorce.
Keen to fit in, she helps out at the local fete and starts to learn about the
history of her house – and her neighbours including the enigmatic Owen.
I am curious to find out more about Owen’s
childhood but I don’t want to appear nosey, and anyway, we have a sudden influx
of customers clamouring for some of Margaret’s dahlias. All the pots are neatly
labelled but I still almost get myself into a muddle.
“You’re not a country girl, are you?”
Margaret laughs.
I shake my head ruefully. “I don’t know
what I’m going to do with all that garden.”
“If you don’t mind me asking, if you don’t
like gardening why did you buy a house in an acre of land?”
“My husband was keen on it.” It’s no good
– I have to bite the bullet at some point. “But he left me, so now I’m on my
own. I couldn’t have carried on living in our marital home – I wanted a fresh
start.”
“Oh Alice, you must be feeling so let
down. I felt a bit that way when Walter died, but at least he didn’t do it
deliberately – or let’s say I don’t think he did.” There is a twinkle in her
eyes and it leavens her sympathy. I like that a lot.
I smile at her and open up just a little
bit. “At first I wanted to string his unmentionables from the nearest lamp
post, but I’m over that now; I’ll survive.”
“Of course you will – human beings are
very resilient.”
Two small children are browsing the books
and our conversation is once again interrupted while Margaret helps them to
choose and I flounder my way through the sale of some more plants.
Once the rush dies down Margaret continues
“Of course, you have just the right house for a female survivor.”
“Why’s that?”
“It was built by a woman. Not in the
physical sense, of course, but she owned the land and had the property put up
to her specification.”
“Wow – that must have been unusual back
then.”
“Almost unheard of. She was a
businesswoman too, the village cheesemaker.”
“So that would explain the barn – she must
have needed somewhere to keep her cattle. Fancy that, a single woman making her
way in the world three hundred years ago.”
“She didn’t stay single – she married a
farmer called Charles later in life and they had a son, but I don’t know what
happened to her after that because a family called Stainthorpe lived in the
house for generations – right up until the 1960s.”
“How on earth do you know about the lady
cheesemaker? It was so long ago.”
“From Owen’s grandmother – she had so many
stories. I wish I’d written down what she told me; the tradition of oral
history in our villages is almost dying out.”
“She sounds like an interesting lady.”
“She was. She died only last year and
she’s left a real gap in the community; she was very knowledgeable.”
“What, about local history?”
Margaret shakes her head. “More than that
– she was a wise woman all around. What she didn’t know about herbs... and
people, for that matter... we do all miss her, Owen especially.”
“He’s a nice man, isn’t he?” I venture,
and Margaret nods.
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Author
Bio –
Although brought up in
Cardiff, Jane Cable left Wales to study at the age of eighteen and has lived in
England ever since. Her father was Anglo-Welsh poet Mercer Simpson so growing
up in a house full of books Jane always read – and wrote. In 2011 she started
to take her hobby seriously when The Cheesemaker’s House, which became her
debut novel, reached the final of The Alan Titchmarsh Show’s People’s Novelist
competition. She writes romance with a twist of mystery which has been
published independently and through the UK ebook giant, Endeavour Press. Jane
is an active member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a director of
Chindi Authors.
In 2017 Jane moved to
Cornwall and this year will become a full time author. She’s passionate about
her new home, cricket, travelling and her husband of 22 years – although not
necessarily in that order.
Social
Media Links –
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Twitter: @JaneCable
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