Helen Simonson is an English author who lives in the United States.

Early life

Helen Simonson was born and raised in England. When she was a teenager, her family moved to

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. She attended university in London, then moved to the United States, where she has lived for more than three decades and is a citizen. She is a resident of

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and has also lived in the

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area. Her first two books are set in rural East Sussex.

Bibliography

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Film

Screen rights to ''Major Pettigrew's Last Stand'' were sold in 2011 to producers Paula Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan and Kevin McCormick. They hired

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to write the screenplay.

References

External links

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