Susanna Bavin

Susanna Bavin writes stories with strong female characters, set in times when women needed determination and vision to make their mark. She loves domestic history and costume history and is fascinated by the legal position of women in the past.

She has written 4 standalone sagas and a WW2 saga series, The Home Front Girls. Her new WW2 series is The Red Cross Girls, which features a top secret unit that works on developing 'escape aids' to send secretly to prisoners of war to help them plan their escape from the POW camps.

Susanna also writes as Polly Heron (The Surplus Girls 1920s saga series) and Maisie Thomas (The Railway Girls WW2 saga series, and The Wartime Hotel WW2 saga series). Maisie's new series, Calico House, is set in the 1920s and concerns the women who come to Calico House at a time when each is at a turning point in her life. Calico House offers both security and the chance to earn a living. She says: "I loved working on this new series and delving into the social details of the time. It also gave me the chance to write about the clothes of the era - one of my favourite topics."

Susanna lives on the beautiful North Wales coast with her husband and their two rescue cats. She is originally from Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, where her family has lived for several generations and which provides the setting for her family sagas.