| Rebecca Shaw | |
| Birth Date: | 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Leeds, England |
| Occupation: | Writer, teacher of deaf children |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Partner: | Married |
| Children: | 4 |
Rebecca Shaw was the Sunday Times bestselling author of 28 novels published by Orion Publishing Group. She sold more than one million copies.[1] [2] Her books came in two series, Barleybridge and Turnham Malpas, and revolved around the loves and lives of countryside dwellers. She also published three standalone eBooks.
Shaw grew up in Armley, Leeds, and attended the progressive independent co-educational Wennington School. She became a school teacher and worked with deaf children. She lived with her husband, father of her four children, in a Dorset village where she found inspiration for her much-loved classic stories about rural life.
In an interview with Shaw in the Sunday Telegraph, Rebecca Tyrell said Shaw was 'a very gifted storyteller and that is quite an art.'
A review in The Telegraph[3] for 'A Village Deception' described her style as 'The Archers meet Midsomer Murders'.
Shaw wrote 19 books based in the fictional village of Turnham Malpas:
She wrote 6 books based in the fictional village of Barleybridge:
Shaw's three eBooks:
Shaw died in 2015 after a major stroke.[4] She was survived for two years by her husband, who subsequently died on 25 December 2017, and her four children.