I am absolutely delighted to announce that my novel, Mrs Crowley has been long listed for the Page Turner Awards in the Screenplay – Book Adaptation Needed category.

Inspired by the true marriage of Aleister Crowley, this gothic novel reclaims the voice of Rose Edith Kelly, the woman he tried to erase. For over a century, the history of a significant occult work has been told through the lens of Aleister Crowley’s monstrous ego. In his memoirs, Rose Kelly is reduced to a passive conduit, an uneducated medium, or, most cuttingly, a woman who carried a volume of Robert Browning’s poetry ‘as a social prop .’ This novel was born from a desire to take that prop and turn it into a weapon.

Mrs Crowley is a reimagining of the life of Rose Edith Kelly the wife of magician, occultist, and poet Aleister Crowley. The story follows Rose from Belle Epoque Paris and the start of her romance with the handsome magician to their significant honeymoon in Cairo and to the depths of their tumultuous marriage played out in Boleskine Manor on the shores of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

It is exciting that the screenplay judges see the potential in Mrs Crowley!

I am grateful to the amazing team at The Novelry who guided me along the way from idea to first draft and editing especially Louise Dean, Kate Riordan, and Gillian Holmes.