Valerie Blumenthal

I am a lecturer, speaker and author of many critically acclaimed novels. The first four, published by Harper Collins, were historical. The next four, published by Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton were contemporary. I have also written several other books specifically for the overseas market, plus short stories (YOU Magazine, Mail on Sunday) and numerous features for The Times, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Oxford Times, Jewish Chronicle and Huffington Post. I taught creative writing for adult education for many years, including at a high security men’s prison. My latest novel, ‘The Lupo Stick’, has taken me seven years to complete, after I was diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, an unusual form of early-onset Alzheimer’s, which affects vision.