Born and raised in the home counties, Alice Graysharp has enjoyed a varied working life including office work, retail, and hospitality. She currently lives in the English county of Surrey. The Keeping of Secrets is her first novel (the first title in a two-book series), and she is also working on a trilogy set in the seventeenth century. Alice was inspired to research the remarkable wartime stories of her family after sitting down with her elderly mother to document the latter’s memoir. Moved by the family’s experiences of the Second World War, and the secret contributions her father made to the war effort, Alice’s investigations took her to Brixton, Leatherhead, Doncaster, Frinton-on-Sea and the former Lowercroft army camp site in Lancashire. Her inquiries brought her into contact with many kind and helpful people including the Old Girls’ Association of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

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