6/3/2023 0 Comments The Gin Queens by Ann Perry![]() ![]() When it appeared in the US, it topped the New York Times bestseller list. Her new novel, No Graves As Yet, is the first of a five-part series centred on the first world war. ![]() In the past four decades, Perry has published 40 books and established herself as a leading crime novelist, selling more than 10m copies. She became a Mormon and moved to a small, secluded community in Scotland. "I had to give up my past - the hardest thing imaginable - and begin life in my new identity as Anne Perry, knowing even a tiny slip could unravel everything," she says. She was released from prison in 1959 and set about reconstructing her life. The grisly story was the subject of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures, in which Hulme was played by Kate Winslet. Both were convicted of murder and sent to prison. ![]() In 1954, Perry - then a 15-year-old called Juliet Hulme, living in New Zealand - helped to bludgeon to death the mother of her friend, Pauline Parker. Sometimes the past casts too long a shadow. 'W hy can't I be judged for who I am now, not what I was then?" asks the novelist Anne Perry. ![]()
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