Loretta Proctor
Loretta Proctor was born in Cairo, Egypt to an English father and Greek mother. She won prizes in the 1970’s for essays and plays, then wrote specialised articles. She studied Freudian, then Jungian, psychology from an earlya ge and did a good deal of counselling work. Now retired with her husband to Malvern, Worcestershire, she delights in story telling, writes poetry and is pleased to be a distant relation of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.
Loretta Proctor won prizes for stories and plays in the 1970s, but put writing aside for many years. Now back to writing novels, her first book, The Long Shadow, was published in 2005. Her own interest in painting and a lifelong fascination with Pre-Raphaelite artworks led to her writing The Crimson Bed.
Loretta compares her books to those by Sarah Waters, Ruth Rendell and Tracy Chevalier.
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Middle Watch
Loretta Proctor
Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)The book was conceived one morning when I was having coffee with a friend. She mentioned that when her stepfather retired from the Navy, he took a job as a lighthousekeeper and the family went with them. Her own life...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
The Crimson Bed
Family secrets have played a large part in Loretta’s life and are woven into her stories. The Crimson Bed is a story of sexual secrets and feelings people hide out of shame, afraid of tarnishing the carefully constructed respectable image...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2010
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Middle Watch
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Middle Watch is a time when a man alone on a lighthouse in those wee small hours feels he's the only person in the world. A man awake and alone in the darkness of the night has time to think,...
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Middle Watch is a time when a man alone on a lighthouse in those wee small hours feels he's the only person in the world. A man awake and alone in the darkness of the night has time to think,...
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Crimson Bed
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Frederic Ashton Thorpe and his best friend, Henry Winstone, are artists immersed in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, with its yearning for romantic escape from the materialism of Victorian society. Seeing a half-finished portrait of the beautiful Eleanor Farnham at Henry's studio,...
Format: eBook - Released: 01/03/2010 -
The Crimson Bed
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Frederic Ashton Thorpe and his best friend, Henry Winstone, are artists immersed in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, with its yearning for romantic escape from the materialism of Victorian society. Seeing a half-finished portrait of the beautiful Eleanor Farnham at Henry's studio,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/02/2010
