Storm Clouds over Broombank

Born in Lancashire, Freda Lightfoot has been a teacher and a bookseller, and in a mad moment even tried her hand at the 'good life'. Inspired by this tough life on the fells, memories of her Lancashire childhood, and her passion for history, she has published more than 48 historical novels including many bestselling family sagas and historical fiction. Among her best-known series are the Salford Sagas, the Lakeland Sagas, the Champion Street Market series and the Poor House Lane series Freda has lived in the Lake District and Cornwall, but now spends her winters in Spain and the rainy summers in the UK.

British actor and narrator Sarah Cullum trained at The Oxford School of Drama. She has since gone on to perform around the UK, working with theatre companies such as Shakespeare’s Globe, The RSC, and Punchdrunk Enrichment. As an audiobook narrator, Sarah was nominated for Best Performance in Audiobooks: Fiction at the 2024 UK One Voice Awards for Welcome To My World by Miranda Dickinson. Other notable titles include Anna O by Matthew Blake and Sian Gilbert's She Started It.