Rachel Sweasey
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Rachel Sweasey

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Rachel Sweasey is a historical fiction novelist. She lives in Australia, but bases her fiction in Poole, Dorset, where she grew up. Beautiful Poole is a great inspiration for her WW2 stories. Rachel is inspired by the writing of Kate Morton, and her first three historical fiction novels are WW2 dual timeline stories. Rachel's first book, The Last Boat Home, released in 2024 and features the Poole RNLI lifeboat and the part it played in the Dunkirk evacuation, as well as a delicious love affair on the shores of a gorgeous Mediterranean bay on the Cote d'Azur. The Island Girls, also released 2024, features Poole with a focus on the flying boats that operated in the harbour during WW2. Beautiful Brownsea Island is an important part of the setting where an Australian ranger, Rebekah, learns secrets that tie Poole to her home in Brisbane. The third of Rachel's WW2 stories, The Girl from Normandy, follows the journey of a young woman, Marie-Claire, who suffers tragic loss at the hands Nazi violence in Paris in 1940. Marie-Claire follows her destiny to Normandy where she fights with the resistance. The Girl from Normandy was published in June 2025. Rachel is working on a new Saga Series called The Lifeboat Girls, also set in Poole but around the WW1 period. The first book in the series will release in May 2026 and include connections with the Titanic and the tragedy of its loss as well as the onset of The Great War. You can follow Rachel on Facebook and Instagram by searching for RachelSweaseyAuthor, and there you'll find a link to sign up for her newsletter. Rachel's website cannot be linked here but if you search for rachelsweaseydotcom you will find it!
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