Emma Henderson was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, London, Somerville College, Oxford and Yale University, Connecticut. She wrote blurbs for Penguin books for two years, then spent a decade teaching English in comprehensive schools and further education colleges, before moving to the French Alps where, for six years, she ran a ski and snowboard lodge. She now lives in Derbyshire and is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Keele University. The Valentine House is her second novel.
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The Valentine House
In June 1914 Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family in the French Alps to summer in their chalet, where fourteen-year-old foundling […]
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