Victoria Purman talks to Cheryl Akle about her former career in journalism, her path into publishing, her writing routines, and her love of both vintage and contemporary books. Her latest novel, The Marriage Trap, is out now.
About the author
Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Her last book The Radio Hour was an Australian bestseller, as were her previous novels. Her earlier novel The Three Miss Allens was a USA Today bestseller. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter and has been a judge in the fiction category for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize.
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