Eve Edwards

Eve Edwards is a pen name used by British novelist Julia Golding for historical romance and contemporary romantic fiction. Golding is a former diplomat and Oxfam policy adviser who holds a doctorate in English literature from the University of Oxford, and her academic background is reflected in the carefully researched settings of her historical novels. Her best-known books as Edwards are written primarily for young adults, combining romantic relationships with questions of family duty, social rank, religious conflict and personal independence.

The Lacey Chronicles—The Other Countess, The Queen’s Lady and The Rogue’s Princess—are set in Elizabethan England between 1582 and 1586. The books follow interconnected members and associates of the Lacey family, moving between the royal court, London’s merchant community and voyages to the Americas while exploring the obstacles created by wealth, class and reputation. Edwards later turned to the First World War in Dusk and its sequel, Dawn. Dusk follows the romance between nurse Helen and aristocratic artist Sebastian against the contrasting settings of wartime London and the trenches of the Somme, using the pressures of war to examine love, secrecy, trauma and social division.