Suzanne Winterly - Author

Photo shows an antique Aynsley china tea cup and saucer with a taller matching milk jug. The colours are rust red and dark blue design on white. In the background, is a framed photograph of Suzanne Winterly’s grandmother wearing a black dress with lace sections.

I’ve just learned that today is International Tea Day. This was my grandmother and part of one of her tea sets. She was the practical daughter of an Irish doctor, but also loved writing poems and stories.

#internationalteaday #familystories

Hopefully it’s just a phase. You sound like you need a rest.

Blue skies in Ireland where I’m editing in the garden.

A pergola covered in pale purple wisteria in our local garden centre, with a wooden bench in the centre of paving stones and earthen ware pots on either side.

Beautiful beach woods at Emo Court in Ireland with bluebells stretching under the trees in a mass of blue colour.

A close-up photo of Wisteria in our local garden centre, with long pendulums of pale purple flowers around an area of paving stones.

More May abundance: wisteria in our local garden centre and bluebells in Emo woods.

#Gardening

Best of luck. Very well put!

This is a photograph of a blonde woman in Victorian times wearing rather beautiful black dress with a lacy effect, sitting on a tree log amongst snowdrops.

This is the side view of Chatsworth house in Derbyshire. There is a gravel path and, on the left, a large yew forms various mounds. Chatworth was supposed to be the influence for Pemberley in Jane Austen‘s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’. I was lucky to visit Chatsworth a couple of years ago. It is a beautiful place, owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and in the library they have a first edition of Jane Austen’s famous novel.

This is a photograph of the steps leading down to the maze at Chatsworth house in Derbyshire, England. The maze replaced a vast glasshouse after the First World War, when it became very expensive to heat those sort of buildings. I was very lucky to visit Chatsworth a couple of years ago, and I was impressed by the garden.

It’s the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this year. Chatsworth in Derbyshire is the model for Pemberley in ‘Pride and Prejudice’. I was lucky to visit it a couple of years ago.

The BBC has an article about Jane Austen and the houses that influenced her work.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

The photograph shows two of my relations in an old graveyard in County Tipperary. It is a beautiful sunny day and the grass looks very green! We were searching for our ancestors who used to live in a house in the area and it was quite a walk across the field from the road to get there. The graveyard has a very old ruined church but was a lovely peaceful spot. I think we will have to go back again because it takes quite a while to read the inscriptions on the weathered headstones. An enjoyable day out!

The main character in my dual timeline mystery series unearths family secrets. I went with some of my relations to track down our own ancestors last week in Tipperary.

#mysterybooks

The author, Suzanne Winterly, standing in front of a tall pink camellia tree at Emo Court in County Laois, Ireland. The garden and house are open to the public and contain many beautiful trees and shrubs. There is also a walk around the lake. Lovely place to visit.

Sadly I can only grow Camellias in a container because of our limey soil. Lots of lovely Camellia trees in the ground at Emo Court in Co Laois, Ireland this week. 💚

#Gardening

March and April are the busiest sowing months in my garden. Already seedlings are popping up above the soil. Tomatoes, cucumber, potato, rocket, broad beans and salads are appearing, but I admit I have a greenhouse.

🌺 #Gardening

This photograph shows a bank of yellow primroses in springtime. We’ve had beautiful weather in Ireland for the last week, which can be unusual in April.

A bank of April primroses. We’re having amazing weather in Ireland. Everyone is wondering if this is our summer. It happens!

Perhaps the US version now comes with ‘strings attached’.

I haven’t seen this but I’m in Europe where we’ll continue to be ‘owned’ by Chinese company ByteDance.

Spring in Claude Monet’s garden. I longed to move into his lovely house.

An important visitor? Rural Ireland in the late 1800s.

(The National Library collection)

The photo shows a little white dove sitting on a roosting perch beside a grey and white speckled cockerel and a brown hen. The dove arrived in the garden one day and decided to stay. It follows the cockerel and hens around during the day and roost with them at night!

This little white dove flew into a garden belonging to friends of mine and has decided to stay. It follows the cockerel and hens around during the day, and roosts with them at night!

#countrystories #countryliving❤️ #countryside #gardening

The image shows an old stone doorway leading out of a stone tower in Normandy in France. The view is of a green lawn, a low hedge and an expanse of sea beyond. The tower is on the Normandy coast in an area called La Petite Irlande because the landscape is similar to that of the Southern Ireland coast. It’s a picturesque and quiet area well worth visiting. Cherbourg is the nearest ferry port.

Looking out of a tower in Normandy, France. The landscape is so like Ireland that the area is called La Petite Irlande. Take the ferry to Cherbourg and turn left!

I’ve checked that pirate site, thanks to your TT post, and my best selling book is there but not the other two.

The Forty Elephants – A female criminal gang in the Victorian era — Suzanne Winterly London, 1890. A crowd jostled on Oxford Street amidst the cries of market traders, the smell of roasting chestnuts rising into the yellow fog. Two well-dressed women lingered at the corner, watching a...

#Historicalstories
A Victorian female crime gang in London. Based on a true story.

www.suzannewinterly.com/blog/2025/3/...

Ha! Of course!

Let’s not think about that 😏

It’s painful, isn’t it? I have an injury from last April and I’m sick of it. Doing physio now… again.

What a beautiful colour! It’s too cold to grow it here in Ireland, unfortunately. 💚🌺

We’re now selling paperbacks direct from my website. You can add your own page at the front with a dedication of your choice too!
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A tiny, hidden botanical garden in Cherbourg, France. Great place for reading and a coffee. Took us quite a while to find it among the narrow streets.

#Gardens

He deserved one.

‘Ripley’ the thriller series. Did you see it? Atmospherically shot in black and white, starring Andrew Scott. I won’t be inviting Mr Ripley to my house any time soon. Loved it.

Is it spring yet? At least for one day in Ireland. My garden flowers in March.

Agatha Christie’s kitchen in her house Greenway in Devon, where she set her novel ‘Dead Man’s Folly’.

#mysterynovels

Slang expressions come and go over the decades. Here’s one from the Victorian era.

#Victorian