Donna Thomson was born in Gosport, near Portsmouth Harbour, England, UK. Growing up during the terrifying years of the Blitz in a two-up, two-down terraced house, the youngest of four, she aspired to be a writer from an early age.
As a young woman she worked in the Civil Service and moved to Devon to be near her sailor husband. They had a son and a daughter. When the marriage ended, she and her two children moved to the Midlands, where she happily married again to her second husband. After living in the Lake District for twelve years, she finally moved back to Devon, and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor. She lost her son Philip in 2008, and has two grandchildren. A keen walker and animal-lover, she now has a dog and three ginger cats to keep her busy, along with a wide range of hobbies she enjoys.
She started signing her romance novels as Donna Baker and Nicola West, now she also writes as Lilian Harry (inspired by the first names of her grandparents). Among her works are historical novels, romances and even two books giving advice on how to write short stories and novels.
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Fiction, Fiction, general, England, fiction, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Villages, Fiction, sagas, Burracombe (England : Imaginary place), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, general, Large type books, Fiction, war & military, Women, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Social aspects, Social conditions, Fiction, historical, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, Families, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Fiction, thrillers, general, Hospitals, Juvenile literaturePlaces
England, Devon, Devon (England), London, Portsmouth, Great Britain, Wales, Brittany (France), Dunkerque, France, London (England), Okla Shattuck, Oklahoma, Portsmouth (England), Rhondda, Shattuck, island of Malta, yugoslaviaID Numbers
- OLID: OL20584A
- GoodReads: 24070
- ISNI: 0000000073922365
- VIAF: 24170379
- Wikidata: Q130016369
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q130016369
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- Donna Thomson
- Nicola West
- Lilian Harry
- Lillian Harry
- Harry Lilian Staff
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