Janet MacLeod Trotter
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Janet MacLeod Trotter

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British best-selling author, Janet MacLeod Trotter, has had 28 books published, 20 of them historical family dramas. Her India-set novels, such as THE RAJ HOTEL SERIES, were inspired by the discovery of a treasure-trove of long-lost family diaries, letters and cine films left by her grandparents who had lived and worked in Northern India from the 1920s to the '50s.
Janet says, 'Reading their frank and intimate words brought my grandparents vividly and poignantly alive for me, long after their deaths.'
Janet first went to India herself on an overland bus at the age of 18, eager to see the land where her grandfather had been a forester and her mother had spent her childhood. Her INDIA TEA SERIES, set in Britain and India, has proved hugely popular. THE TEA PLANTER'S DAUGHTER (the first in the series) was nominated for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year and was an Amazon top ten best seller. It has gone on to be a best-seller in translation, including in German, Russian, French, Italian, Serbian and Spanish.

Janet's second novel in THE INDIA TEA SERIES, THE TEA PLANTER'S BRIDE is set in 1920's Scotland and India was particularly influenced by her grandparents' depiction of life in the Punjab (they married in Lahore) and the Himalayan foothills where they trekked. 'Even my mother, as a small baby,' said Janet, 'was hoist in a pram on poles and carried with the rest of the baggage!'

The third novel in the series, GIRL FROM THE TEA GARDEN, follows the family into the Second World War - some of it was inspired by a more recent trip to the foothills of the Himalayas to discover where Janet's mother had lived as a child.
‘I got a tingle down my spine when we managed to track down and look around the house in Shimla where my mum had spent the winter of 1928.’
The fourth novel, SECRETS OF THE TEA GARDEN, is set in the dying days of the British Raj and Indian Independence, while the fifth and final REUNION AT THE TEA GARDEN takes the family drama into the 1960s and 70s to its dramatic and emotional conclusion.

Speaking of her newer series, THE RAJ HOTEL, Janet says, 'I have returned to the Punjab where my grandparents began married life for the setting of THE EMERALD AFFAIR - from the glamour of Rawalpindi's garrison town to the lawless tribal areas of the North West Frontier. And in the follow-up novel, THE SAPPHIRE CHILD, the action also takes place in Kashmir - a place that captured my heart as an eighteen-year-old!'
The Raj Hotel trilogy concludes with THE DIAMOND DAUGHTER, set in the post 2nd WW era, in which shocking secrets come to light and family mysteries are finally solved.

‘My own adventurous bus trip to India as a teenager and the diary that I kept, were the basis for a mystery novel, THE VANISHING OF RUTH,’ says Janet. ‘It conjures up that golden era of overland travel in Asia that is long gone.’
Janet's storytelling has brought recognition: her first historical novel, THE HUNGRY HILLS, was nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, while IN THE FAR PASHMINA MOUNTAINS was shortlisted for the RNA Historical Romantic Novel.

She has written for teenagers: her recently published novel THE BOY FROM VIETNAM received an Arts Council Award. She’s had numerous short stories featured in women's magazines, some of which are published in an ebook anthology ICE CREAM SUMMER. She has been a columnist and reviewer for The Newcastle Journal and editor of The Clan MacLeod Magazine. Her childhood memoirs of Durham and Skye in the 1960's, BEATLES & CHIEFS, was featured on BBC Radio 4's Home Truths.
She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and The Society of Authors.
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