Sheryl Beaumont on her new novel The War Photographers

First published on RNZ

6 March

Sheryl Beaumont's latest novel weaves together two pivotal points in 20th century history: efforts to crack the enigma code during World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The War Photographers introduces readers to Mae, a young woman recruited from Cambridge to work at Bletchley Park and her granddaughter Rachel, who's working as a photojournalist as the Cold War is drawing to a close. Rachel's work is about to coincide with a mystery that's haunted her grandmother for decades.

Sheryl's research for the book literally took her around the world, although she was familiar with London, having worked in banking there. It's also the setting of her novel Shadow of Doubt, which won the 2020 Indie Reader Award and was long-listed for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel - and two of her other novels which feature her character of forensic accountant Kat Munro.

First published on RNZ