Lorraine Turnbull was born and bred in Glasgow, and has had a varied career including being a front-line police officer. In 2005 she escaped to the country and set up a smallholding in Cornwall, where she started a small cider business and won a prestigious sustainability award. In 2017 she relocated to South West France and began her writing career. She has produced five books, all with a farming theme. Mum’s the Word is her debut novel.
When Ann-Marie Ross murders her abusive husband and feeds him to the pigs, she thinks she's got away with murder and secured the future of her Scottish cider farm. But she soon finds herself having to keep more than one deadly secret to protect those closest to her. As four women embrace their new-found independence, Ann-Marie is tormented by the threat of discovery. A darkly comic tale of murder, friendship and Love. "Wickedly funny"
Characterisation was such fun when writing this, my first novel. Isa, the matriarch of the family has become a firm favourite with many readers and I’m often asked if I based her character on myself or my mother. I have to say no. The secret is that Isa was partly based on The Dowager Countess of Grantham from the TV show Downton Abbey! She (Isa) may even appear again in a future novel.
Mum’s the Word by Lorraine Turnbull
As four women embrace their new-found independence, Ann-Marie is tormented by the threat of discovery.
A darkly comic tale of murder, friendship and Love.
Lorraine Turnbull was born in Glasgow where she lived until 2005 when she and her family moved to Cornwall to run a smallholding. She relocated to France in 2017 where she continues to make cider, writes books and learns French.
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