Emma's new book A Gypsy's Curse is out now!

Angus, Scotland, 1815.

Mairead, a Romani storyteller, dreams of a place to call home, where she can plant her stories and nurture her sense of belonging. But when she marries Lachlan, a Scottish fisherman, she finds herself in a hostile village that shuns her for her Gypsy heritage and her stories.

Her fate is tied to a genie’s curse that gives her a year to choose her own death. Will she be able to outsmart the genie and the villagers who want her to leave? Or will she succumb to the dark forces that threaten her life and her love?

Accused of witchcraft, betrayal, and murder, Mairead must fight for her survival and her happiness.

A Gypsy’s Curse is a historical fiction novel with a twist of fairy tale and fantasy, inspired by the Scottish folktale The Fisherman and the Genie.

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Emma is a British-Scottish author of contemporary fiction, whose writing has been featured on Radio 2, and won second place in the Just Imagine short story competition with her story A Traveller's Daughter. It is possible to identify several themes in her novels – the relationship between parents and children and between siblings, obscure fairy tale references, and, more recently, the structure and organisation of society and how this relates to social challenges and the individual lives of her characters.