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Ruth Estevez, author of Meeting Coty, was born in Yorkshire not far from the Brontë’s home in Haworth. Her whole life has involved a love of writing. She now resides in Manchester and works as an Associate Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. She also holds a degree in Drama and has studied acting. As well as performing she has also been involved in stage management, including national theatre companies and for Yorkshire Television’s Emmerdale series. Her “Yes I can” attitude may have something to do with her position as scriptwriter for the BBC’s Bob the Builder series.
Her novel Meeting Coty was released in 2007 and she is writing a sequel Leaving Coty.
"Suspended like a small glider on a windless day, Tessa floated through the silent dining room, across the hallway, into the sun-lit drawing room and back again. As her white clad form passed by, she snapped blooms from the vast displays. She did not hesitate as she dropped each perfume-laden flower into the cotton basin that she'd made by pinching up the hem of her nightgown with her eight-year-old fingertips. She gathered her harvest noiselessly, her undersized bare feet soundless on both carpet and wood. Her reflected figure glinted in the dark, polished surfaces and brass inlay handles of the sideboards.
She paused at the foot of the stairway's wooden banister and glanced with dark, hopeful eyes at the imposing front door. It was too early for the rattle of the milk cart. Too early for the postman. Too early to be downstairs alone in the Garcia household. But not too early to garrotte heady blooms from Tessa's mother's carefully arranged Covent Garden flowers."
Copyright 2007 Ruth Estevez
Meeting Coty is a romance novel, set in the early 20th century. The heroine, Tessa, dreams of meeting Francois Coty, the man behind the perfume empire. We follow her life as she leaves childhood behind and enters womanhood, with all its responsibilities.
Will she ever meet Coty?
Available in softback
Reviews
"...quite lovely."
- Roja Dove, RDPR and Haute Perfumerie, Harrods
“I really enjoyed the effortless prose and the Merchant Ivory type visual world...”
- Amazon UK
“…an evocative story, beautifully written and imaginative.”
- D Mclean
