AUTHOR and historian Rosemary Griggs was busy signing copies of her new book at W H Smith’s Newton Abbot store last Saturday.

Copies of her book Women Of Noble Wit about Katherine, the mother of Sir Walter Raleigh, were also on sale in the store.

Rosemary said: ‘Thank you W H Smith for giving me the opportunity to meet so many people in Newton Abbot on Saturday.

‘I’m thrilled that people are already leaving reviews of my novel.’

This is what people are saying on Amazon about A Woman of Noble Wit: ‘A remarkable, well researched historical novel; a real ‘page-turner’ that I highly recommend.’

‘People sometimes say of a book that they couldn’t put it down, and that was literally the case with Rosemary Griggs’ first novel,’

‘Immersive story telling of an inspiring woman in Tudor England”

‘Rosemary Griggs draws from fascinating details of Elizabethan life, weaving them with vivid descriptions of the Devon countryside to create an evocative narrative.’