A Village in the Country (The Dagenham Story)

Elaine Spires

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BIOGRAPHY
Elaine Spires is a diverse novelist as well as an award-winning playwright and actress.

Extensive travelling and a background in education and tourism perfected Elaine's keen eye for the quirky characteristics of people, captivating the humorous observations she now affectionately shares with the readers of her novels.

She wrote her first book What's Eating Me in 2010. It was originally a play, a one-woman show performed as a monologue with a child actor - Elena-Beth Carter playing Eileen as a child in the background and Elaine performed it on the London and Edinburgh fringes. She loved the character of loved Eileen so much that she decided to expand the story into a book.

Her second novel was Singles' Holiday, set on her beloved Antigua... the Caribbean at its most luscious, its most beautiful... silver sand, cobalt sky, warm, turquoise sea... and a bunch of complete strangers who only have one thing in common: they're single! It went on to be a stage play and the first in a six-book series - Singles Series - set in holiday destinations world-wide and following the life of tour manager, Eve.

And her third novel Sweet Lady, again set in Antigua, will amaze you with a massive twist which goes to show that nothing is as it seems!

Elaine has also written a two-book saga: The Banjo Book One and The Banjo Book Two - about the lives of the families living in a banjo in Dagenham from 1950s up until the present day. The term ‘banjo’ is peculiar to Dagenham and is a pedestrianised cul-de-sac.



When Elaine is not writing her ideas into her next book or play, she enjoys going to the theatre, visiting the cinema, eating out with her friends and she also loves to read! Elaine is a very proud Essex Girl.