Lucy is pleased to announce the publication of her first and second books, Extraordinary Ordinary Women ~ of North Wiltshire, (March 2024), and Extraordinary Ordinary Women ~ of South Wiltshire (December 2025) with Hobnob Press.

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The books extend and expand 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) and South Wiltshire (Trowbridge, Salisbury, Warminster, Market Lavington, Seend, Winterbourne Earls, Westwood, Alderbury, Fovant, Manningford Abbots, and more) onto the blog.

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Through 37 case studies, the books take 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.

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Both have been beautifully illustrated by artist Lucia Lovatt.

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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 or https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/extraordinary-ordinary-women-of-south-wiltshire-by-lucy-whitfield