Jean Fullerton

fall in love with the past

No Cure for Love

No Cure for Love

The East End brought them together... and tore them apart 

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Welcome to JeanFullerton.com

Jean Fullerton - Fall in Love with the Past.

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Hi there my name is Jean Fullerton and I would like to welcome you to my website.  I hope you’ll take the time to have a look around and find out about me and my novels.  It’s also an opportunity for you to see the place where my stories are set as I take you on my very own tour of East London.  
 
A little bit about me: 
I was born into a large, East End Irish imigrant family and grew up in the overcrowded streets clustered around the Tower of London. I still live in East London, just five miles from where I was born.  I feel that it is that my background that gives my historical East London stories their distinctive authenticity. I first fell in love with history at school when I read Anya Seton’s book Katherine. Since then I have read everything I can about English history but I am particularly fascinated by the 18th and 19th century and my books are set in this period.  I just love my native city and the East End in particular which is why I write stories to bring that vibrant area of London alive.  I am also passionate about historical accuracy and I enjoy researching the details almost as much as weaving the story.  If one of my characters walks down a street you can be assured that that street actually existed.   Take a look at Jean’s East End and see the actual location where my characters played out their stories.
 
Photo by Andy Hanson.

 


 
 
Newsflash 1

Jean wins the 2006 Harry Bowling Prize for a debut novel set in London.  

 


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January 2009 

No Cure for Love is selected as one of the 25 books highlighted in The London Borough of Redbridge's Big Red Read. 

 

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Jean cutting the ribbon to open the 6 month long celibration of literature. 

 

 
Jean's Diary

 

April 7th  7.30pm Jean will be speaking at the Norwich Writers Circle in The Assembly House in Norwich.

April 14th. Talk at Becton Globe library.   

Tuesday May 12th 2.00pm Talk at Penn Library Wolverhampton  

Thursday May 14th 7.30 pm Talk at Fulham Library 

Wednesday June10th  6-8pm Talk at Rainham Library 

Thursday 18th Jun 7.30pm WOW group at St Peter's Church Harols Wood 

Tuesday 23rd June 2.30pm 'London Story'Panel discussion as part of the Cultural Olympiad Fulwell Cross Library Barkingside.

Saturday 27th June 11am Taking to readers at Loughton Libarary 

Thursday 2nd July 10-12 Coffee and Books at Barking library.

Tuesday 7th July: Jean will be speaking at Leytonstone Library as part of the Leytonstone festival

Saturday 4th July.Jean will be speaking at the Winchester Writers' Confrence.

July 2009. Jean will be speaking on Historical Research at the Romantic Novelist Associations annual conference in Penrith.

Friday 5th September Jean will be speaking along side Katherine King at Barnsley Library.

Satuday 6th September; Jean Will be speaking and taking part in the writers' day at Todmorden.

Wednesday 11th November. Jean is taliking at the Tunbridge Wells & District Writers' Circle.

Saturday 14th November. Jean Will be at CheshamTown Hall as part of Readers'Day.

Tuesday 1st December 7.30: Jean will be judging the Norwich Writers' circle first 5 pages historical competition.  

 

 

If you would like Jean to speak to a group you are involved with please contact her through the contact link. 

 
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