Hazel Manuel is a UK born novelist who began writing after a career in education, first as a teacher/lecturer and, later, as a business leader within the education sector. She now lives and writes in Paris where she hosts "Paris Writers Working Lunches". Hazel's first novel, Kanyakumari was written over three trips to India and was the winner of the 2013 Cinnamon Press Novel award. Her second novel The Geranium Woman was published in 2016 by Cinnamon Press. She is currently working on a psychological thriller, Cliff. You can find out more about Hazel and her work at www.hazelmanuel.net. It is important to Hazel to discover and explore that which she finds authentic in herself, in other people and in the ideas which inform the ways in which we live our lives and it is this search for authenticity that characterises her novels. What Hazel hopes to achieve through themes of uncertainty, loss, obsession, power, change, fear, and of questioning life and the self, is that the reader travels with her characters through an archetypical inner journey that is fundamentally satisfying because it could equally be their own.