Comments on: Locations http://www.poppydenby.com Poppy Denby investigates Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Fiona http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-220747 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:00:59 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-220747 Hello Leonie! Oh I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Isn’t Helen Keeley’s narration just brilliant? I love her interpretation of Poppy. Now you have five more books to look forward to, petal :)

]]> By: Leonie http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-220632 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 16:16:25 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-220632 Oh my word, I heard your interview with BBC radio Newcastle this week and I thought to myself wow these books sound right up my street. When I got home from work I downloaded the very first book The Jazz Files and I’m so glad I did I listened to the whole book in just 3 nights. I was completely hooked. I myself am from Northumberland and I love period dramas and mystery. The first book had it all and I really can’t wait to start the next one.

]]> By: Anthony Perry http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-7658 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:45:45 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-7658 Fiona, thanks for the message.
Yes, we have read, and enjoyed, the two previous books. My wife, Theresa, follows you on Facebook and twitter so we know when a new story is available. The stories are enjoyable and bring to life post-war Britain. Incidentally, my grandfather was a marine engineer.
Best wishes.

]]> By: Fiona http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-7607 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:12:30 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-7607 Hello Anthony. Thank you for stopping by. I’m very glad you enjoyed The Death Beat. Have you read the first two books? What I didn’t say in the notes at the back of The Death Beat is that my grandma cruised to New York in the 1930s and then again when she was retired in the 1970s. And my dad was a ship’s engineer on the same route in the 1960s so I’ve grown up with stories of life on the liners too.

]]> By: Anthony Perry http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-7569 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:36:14 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-7569 Thank you for ‘The Death Beat’, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the story. The description of life on board ship struck a chord with me, a reminder of stories my grandmother told me about her brother, A S Chatfield, who spent the interwar years on transatlantic liners serving as a purser, latterly as chief purser on the ‘Empress of Australia’. However, when Poppy Denby travelled to New York he was working on the ‘Mauritania’. Interestingly he retired to South Africa, settling in Ports Shepstone, Natal.

]]> By: Fiona http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-5289 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:45:24 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-5289 Thanks for stopping by, Sylvia. And I’m so glad Poppy has found a new fan!

]]> By: Sylvia Armendáriz http://www.poppydenby.com/locations/#comment-4592 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:11:11 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?page_id=12#comment-4592 I just love all this extra info!!! I love reading British historical mysteries and have gotten into the habit of using my cell to call up pics of houses, fashions, food, etc that, as an American (Proud Texan here!), I have no frame of reference for.

There aren’t enough stories such as Poppy’s that are set post WWI, a time of great social upheaval. Poppy’s world is very realistic. I love her background, that she isn’t posh, she has a wonderfully colorful Aunt with a most unique background and is struggling against sexism to make her own place in her new world. Something many women still do to this day!

Descriptions are great. I love using my imagination but with her/your website you’ve expanded what I’ve imagined . And I’m only half way thru the first book! Thank you!

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