A NEW book club is being formed in Bowness at the Burn How Garden House Hotel, with a romantic novelist as the guest for the first meeting.

This is the event book club and the organisers are hoping it will become a regular event. 

Suzanne Snow is a Lancashire-based writer and a regular visitor to the Lakes for many years. She was shortlisted for an award by the Romantic Novelists’ Association for her first book, The Cottage of New Beginnings. She’s now working on a series of Love in the Lakes books for publishers Canelo.

Suzanne writes 'contemporary and uplifting' fiction with a vibrant sense of setting and community connecting the lives of her characters. Her work is inspired by a love of landscape, romance and rural life. She previously worked in financial services and retrained as a horticulturist to plant redesigned gardens.

Her second book, The Garden of Little Rose, is set around the discovery of an abandoned Arts and Crafts garden on a Hebridean island. Her sixth book, Wedding Days at Halesmere House, has just been released and this is the second in a three-book series set in Cumbria, with the third due out in October.