The Love Child is the ninth novel by UEA lecturer in Creative Writing Rachel Hore and is published this week by Simon and Schuster. Rachel worked in publishing for several years before joining UEA, where she teaches publishing and Creative Writing and oversees the production of the annual anthology of work by UEA Creative Writing students. Her previous bestselling novels are The Dream House (2006), The Memory Garden (2007), The Glass Painter’s Daughter (2009), A Place of Secrets (2010), which was selected for the Richard and Judy Bookclub, A Gathering Storm (2011), which was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, The Silent Tide (2013), A Week in Paris (2014), The House on Bellevue Gardens (2016), and Last Letter Home (2018).