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Louise Fein

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Louise is an internationally bestselling and prize winning author of historical fiction, focusing on unheard voices or from unusual perspectives. Her fourth novel, Book of Forbidden Words, will be published in February 2026.

Louise, holds an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University and now writes full time. Equally passionate about historical research and writing, she loves to look for themes which have resonance with today’s world. Louise lives in the Surrey countryside, UK, with her family, and is a slave to the daily demands of her pets.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 31,081 ratings · 3,608 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Daughter of the Reich

4.29 avg rating — 20,193 ratings — published 2020 — 44 editions
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The Hidden Child

3.94 avg rating — 5,448 ratings — published 2021 — 26 editions
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The London Bookshop Affair

3.76 avg rating — 5,407 ratings — published 2024 — 19 editions
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A Short Story - Home

  I wrote this story back in March, shortly after the war had broken out in the Ukraine. On a last minute whim, I entered it into the 2022 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University, just before the cut off time. I then thought no more about it until I received an email from the Award, saying my story had made it into the Top 60 out of 850 entries. I am amazed and delighted, an

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First book of 2026 and it's a corker! I absolutely ate this one in just a few sittings. So achingly beautifully written. So evocative of Provence, art, colour, the slow life of rural 1920's France; the painful, twisted affairs of the human heart. An ...more
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Absolutely loved this beautiful, evocative novel which brought to life the difficulties faced by women scientists from the 1940s and 1950s whose valuable work went uncelebrated and unrecognised. The author cleverly interwove this story with a modern ...more
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For lovers of locked room murder mysteries, this is the perfect read for the holiday season! An English stately home in a snow storm, it will keep you guessing till the end. With a romance at its heart too, it’s Agatha Christie meets Jane Austin. Lov ...more
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“He's never believed in fate. But it seems he was wrong.  His two worlds are colliding as though they were meant to all along, and he has been powerless to stop them. He has done a terrible wrong and this, in the end, is how he is to be punished”
Louise Fein, The Hidden Child

“She hopes that one of them will be man enough (perhaps that should be woman enough?) to back down and admit that peace comes before ego and winning.

Because with nuclear war, there can be no winners.”
Louise Fein, The London Bookshop Affair

“The boys’ laughter follows me all the way back to the house and the cozy visions of my future life shatter like glass into a million multicolored fragments.”
Louise Fein, Daughter of the Reich

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“She hopes that one of them will be man enough (perhaps that should be woman enough?) to back down and admit that peace comes before ego and winning.

Because with nuclear war, there can be no winners.”
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