Louisa Valentine

Louise Wilson, once a Mrs Valentine, also writes romantic fiction as Louisa Valentine. While learning some of the novelist's craft, she belonged to Romance Writers of Australia and the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild, both excellent training grounds for writers and fun learning places. 

She writes the kind of 'slow burn' stories that she likes to read herself, stories about rather reserved people exploring relationships which evolve slowly into believable 'happy-ever-after' endings. Although underlying sexual tension does build, as with Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in 'Pride and Prejudice', the bedroom door in Louisa's stories mostly stays discreetly closed. The emphasis is on aspects of family life. Families matter!

As she has lived and worked in many places around the world, Louisa enjoys conveying a genuine 'feel' of these places in the settings she chooses for her novels. Babyboomers like herself and Gen Xers like her daughter are bound to identify with these settings and her themes. Career women. Parenting. Divorced couples. Fidelity. Infertility. Independence. All her stories are getting great reviews.

She published her first full-length novel 'Retreat into Paradise' in December 2019. In this amusing love-triangle between Hannah, Philip and Pat, set in a rural retreat outside Melbourne, you'll even learn a lot about the loveable ways of cattle! Copies are available here.

Her second novel 'Trading Secrets', set in Sydney's financial markets in the mid 1990s, was published in February 2021. No financial expertise needed: the secrets traded by Nicola and Tom in this story are personal ones, the kind that make and break relationships. Life in Sydney's beautiful harbourside suburbs features strongly! Copies are available here.

Her third novel 'Still Waters Run Deep', set in PNG, Australia, London and Washington in the 1970s, was published in May 2022. It's an unconventional romance, an adventurous but emotional story of love, loyalty, longing, heartache and eventual happiness for soulmates Sarah and Jack. Copies are available here.