{"id":43,"date":"2013-06-18T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T08:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katehordern.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/mary-gibson\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:57:52","slug":"mary-gibson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/khla.co.uk\/index.php\/mary-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mary Gibson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agent: Anne Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Gibson was born and brought up in Bermondsey, the setting for all her novels, and now lives in Kent.  Her most recent book THE BERMONDSEY BOOKSHOP was published by Head of Zeus in paperback, eBook, hardback and audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary is the author of CUSTARD TARTS AND BROKEN HEARTS (Head of Zeus, December 2013), a Kindle Top 10 bestseller which spent over two months in the #1 spot in the Kindle saga bestseller list, JAM AND ROSES, a top 10 Nielsen hardback bestseller (Head of Zeus, November 2014), GUNNER GIRLS AND FIGHTER BOYS, a Kindle Top 40 bestseller, (Head of Zeus,  December 2015), BOURBON CREAMS AND TATTERED DREAMS (Head of Zeus,  November 2016), HATTIE’S HOME (Head of Zeus, November 2017) and A SISTER’S STRUGGLE (Head of Zeus,  May 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praise for Mary Gibson\u2019s novels:
“This wonderfully descriptive book [is] a must-read” OK<\/em> magazine
“A cracking tale full of warmth and history” Bella<\/em> magazine
“A fabulous, fascinating read” Vanessa Feltz
“There were parts that tugged unrelentingly at my heartstrings and parts that left me wanting to jump for joy… A real triumph” Novelicious<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Agent: Anne Williams<\/p>\n

    Mary Gibson was born and brought up in Bermondsey, the background for her fiction. She worked in publishing for thirty years, including over a decade as production manager at Chatto. Mary lives in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMary Gibson - KHLA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mary Gibson was born and brought up in Bermondsey and now lives in Kent. 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