Jean Renwick

JEAN RENWICK

Jean Renwick started creative writing after she retired following a career in public relations, and after she had spent three years attaining a Masters in History of Art at the University of Warwick and in Venice. Since the 1990s she had wanted to write a novel based on a curious brooch, inherited from her godmother, but decided a course in creative writing at the University of Warwick would be beneficial first.

Instead of starting The Mourning Brooch, she opted to write something quite different and so The Mahler Five emerged as her ‘apprentice piece’ and was published in 2016. It is a modern-day psychological drama and very different from the family saga linked to the brooch.

In 2021 she published The Mourning Brooch Book One - An ending. A beginning., the first part of a historical trilogy starting in 1849. The sequel, The Mourning Brooch Book Two - Moving on, covers 1876 to 1913 and was published in 2023 when she began researching and writing the final part of the story ending in 1943.

She lives in the West Midlands, within easy reach of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Stratford-upon-Avon with its RSC. As a founding member of Art Friends Warwickshire, she is active in fund-raising for the arts.

Contact via www.jeanrenwickauthor.co.uk