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Elizabeth Cottrell, author

About

Elizabeth Cottrell

The daughter of a Welsh coalminer, Elizabeth Cottrell won a scholarship to Cambridge and has a Ph.D. in History. Her first job was teaching in Staffordshire where she married a local farmer, gaining experience reflected in this book.
She then pursued a career in research, writing on industry, finance and education. A regular broadcaster, she became a panellist on Radio 4's Any Questions. Such expressions of personal opinion had to stop when Elizabeth became a Special Adviser in the Departments of Culture, Employment, Education and Agriculture. In this role she once took a serious risk in a meeting, saying to Mrs Thatcher, "You are wrong, Prime Minister." She got away with it!
A short story prize in the London Writers' Competition encouraged Elizabeth to write fiction. This is her first novel.
A widow, Elizabeth lives in her native Wrexham with her daughter Alexandra.

Books

  • Long Shadows By Elizabeth Cottrell

    Long Shadows

    Long Shadows delves deeper into the complexities of family ties, loss and self-discovery. Aulis Peverell, a determined woman with a complicated past, struggles with the decision to have another child while navigating her relationship with her husband, Martin, and their children.

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  • The Ceremonious House By Elizabeth Cottrell

    The Ceremonious House

    In 1966 when Aulis Price leaves her Welsh home and her teaching job to marry Staffordshire farmer Martin Peverell, she looks forward eagerly to her new life at Abbotshall, the beautiful Georgian farmhouse which is the Peverell family home.

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