There was beauty in her imperfections.

Like an ink smudge on a handwritten love letter, or the crumpled pages of a favourite book.

Tucked away in almost every home, somewhere in an attic, garage, or under-stair closet, lies a box of keepsakes from long ago.

Jenny Hale is a USA Today and international bestselling author of romantic contemporary fiction, but it is impossible to put Jenny Hale in a box.

The closeness we shared, our daily tea visits, our endless phone calls — these were not just family routines, they were part of a cultural framework that places love, care and connection at the centre of everything.

There are days when you think you might have made a home somewhere else only to have the town’s soul reach out to you and softly whisper in your ear that it’s time to return to where you belong.

Debut romance author Caroline Stowe talks to us about love, writing and how she got published for the first time.