Lucy is pleased to announce the publication of her first book, Extraordinary Ordinary Women ~ of North Wiltshire, released at the end of March 2024 by Hobnob Press.

​

The book extends and expands on some of the women’s stories Lucy has already featured in The Women Who Made Me project, and adds in more from across North Wiltshire – Chippenham, Corsham, Malmesbury, Devizes, Bradford-on-Avon, Cricklade, All Cannings, Winterbourne Bassett, and more. Many of them are exclusive to the book, and haven’t been put onto the blog.

​

Through twenty case studies, the book takes in inspirational teachers, gutsy landladies, pioneering social workers, a war hero with her beloved hounds, mental health patients at the mercies of Victorian care, a herbalist accused of murder, a nun who was stoned in the street, a young woman who eloped with her adoptive uncle, a beauty influencer with an acidic tongue, and a charwoman who hid her pregnancy and suffered the consequences.

​

It’s been beautifully illustrated by artist Lucia Lovatt.

​

Copies (£12.95) are available through Lucy, or you can buy it on Amazon if you’re that way inclined, or at https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/extraordinary-ordinary-women-of-north-wiltshire-by-lucy-whitfield