Spotlight on Deborah Swift, author of The Poison Keeper

 Naples 1633

 Aqua Tofana – One drop to heal. Three drops to kill.

Giulia Tofana longs for more responsibility in her mother’s apothecary business, but Mamma has always been secretive and refuses to tell Giulia the hidden keys to her success. When Mamma is arrested for the poisoning of the powerful Duke de Verdi, Giulia is shocked to uncover the darker side of her trade.

Giulia must run for her life, and escapes to Naples, under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, to the home of her Aunt Isabetta, a famous courtesan. But when Giulia hears that her mother has been executed, and the cruel manner of her death, she swears she will wreak revenge on the Duke de Verdi.

The trouble is, Naples is in the grip of Domenico, the Duke’s brother, who controls the city with the ‘Camorra’, the mafia. Worse, her Aunt Isabetta, under Domenico’s thrall, insists that she should be consort to him – the brother of the man she has vowed to kill.

Based on the legendary life of Giulia Tofana, this is a story of hidden family secrets, and how even the darkest desires can be vanquished by courage and love.

‘Her characters so real they linger in the mind long after the book is back on the shelf’ Historical Novel Society

 

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Deborah Swift 

Fun Facts 

(Stuff you may or may not already know!)

Fun things about me.

It’s at this point I discover I’m not actually fun.

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I love to do physical things and my lifestyle includes martial arts, yoga and dancing.

Here I am in our studio at home ready for an online class. You can see the yoga hammock behind me, and so far I’ve managed not to strangle myself with it.

I like to drum on big drums, here’s my group in action! We are very enthusiastic amateurs! 

I used to work as a costume designer but I am probably the worst dressed person I know. One of the jobs I once had at the BBC was to screen in the incoming live audiences for ‘Offensive’ T-shirts and replace them with plain white.  They could collect the offending item again after the show.

I have a Zen side to me that not many see, and I like to meditate and spend a lot of time in silence, even when not writing. Om!

At one point I was part of a black light theatre group that specialized in puppets and illusions and toured with them all around the UK including Northern Ireland, where our van kept being impounded in case it harboured a bomb. For that job, I was dancer/puppeteer/stagehand and invisible person.

Pictures my own or from Wikipedia

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Thank you for hosting me, never realized I was so dull!

Deborah

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Deborah Swift 

Deborah Swift lives in the north of England and is a USA Today bestselling author who has written fourteen historical novels to date. Her first novel, The Lady’s Slipper, set in 17th Century England, was shortlisted for the Impress Prize, and her WW2 novel Past Encounters was a BookViral Millennium Award winner.

Deborah enjoys writing about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and most of her novels have been published in reading group editions. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a mentor with The History Quill.

 

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