Susie Sharp, women's fiction author, Brecon Wales

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Welsh-born.
Tuscany-shaped.

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Hi, I’m Susie.

A Welsh-born writer living in Brecon, I create emotionally layered fiction for women over 40 who want stories that reflect real life – the messy, brave, beautiful parts.

My novels explore grief, reinvention, and second chances – the slow, tender kind that often begin just when you think it’s too late.

For twelve years, I lived in Tuscany, rebuilding a life after divorce. The hills, the stillness, the scent of jasmine on warm stone… it healed me, shaped me, and found its way into my stories.

I know what it feels like to hold everything together for everyone else. To be the dependable one, the steady one, the one who says 'I’m fine' even when you’re anything but.

That’s why I write – to offer a moment of recognition. A gentle mirror. A reminder that you still matter.

Susie Sharp's writing spot in Tuscany, the inspiration behind the Echoes of the Lake series

--------  FICTION FOR WOMEN OVER 40

Because we deserve
to see ourselves
in stories

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Not the polished, perfect versions.

The real stuff — love after loss, starting over, craving something more even when the world says "you should be grateful."

My novels are for women who've been through things. Who've raised families, closed chapters, held others up for years… and are finally asking: What about me?

They're for women who want fiction that feels like a conversation with someone who truly gets it

--------   WHAT I WRITE & WHY

Character-driven fiction
with soul-deep shifts

Emotional honesty above all

No tidy resolutions or unrealistic fairy tales. Just the slow, tender truth of what it feels like to be a woman navigating real life.

Women over 40 as whole people

Not side characters. Not comedy relief. The full, complex, longing, funny, heartbroken, hopeful whole of a woman's midlife experience.

Place as character

Tuscany isn't just a backdrop — it's a presence. The light, the warmth, the particular quality of silence in the hills. Place shapes people.

Hope that earns itself

My stories are hopeful — but the hope is hard-won. Earned through grief, through honest reckoning, through the quiet courage to begin again.

-----------    A FEW FACTS — JUST FOR FUN

The woman behind
the words

Lived in Tuscany for twelve years — and left a little piece of her heart behind

A proud granny — and it's one of the great joys of her life

Once owned a Triumph motorbike. Yes — she was a biker chick.

Former chemist, then photographer — now she tells stories for a living

Writes from a shed in the garden in Brecon — her creative sanctuary

Makes a mean plate of pancakes. The Welsh way, mind. There is a difference.

Ready to read Susie's
debut novel?


Joan Hessayon Award contender 2026. Available in ebook, paperback, hardback, and signed copies.

Susie  Sharp

Writing emotionally layered women's fiction for midlife women. Based in Brecon, Wales.

© 2026 Susie Sharp