Biography
Susanna Bavin is the author of four standalone sagas – The Deserter’s Daughter, A Respectable Woman, The Sewing Room Girl and The Poor Relation, all published by Allison & Busby. Her Second World War series, The Home Front Girls, is published by Bookouture (2024 and 2025).
She also writes as Polly Heron (The Surplus Girls 1920s saga series, published by Corvus) and Maisie Thomas (The Railway Girls WW2 saga series, published by Penguin).
Maisie Thomas has a new series being released in 2025 by Boldwood books. The first title is called A New Home at the Wartime Hotel.
Susanna lives in Llandudno in North Wales with her husband and their rescue cats, but her writing is inspired by her Mancunian roots. She has been both a librarian and a teacher, but she always wanted to be a published author. Susanna enjoys reading, walking and gardening and she loves living by the sea.
