An 82-year-old grandmother is celebrating after her landing a three-book publishing deal. Myrrha Stanford-Smith's first novel, The Great Lie, was released last week and now the teacher and theatre director is looking forward to seeing the rest of the trilogy in print.Myrrha, who is based in North Wales, described the shock she felt after receiving the phone call about the deal. She told the Telegraph: ''I was gobsmacked. I had to put the phone down and ring them back as I was so taken aback by the whole thing.
''I had to pull myself together before I could even pick up the phone to call back.
''It was out of the blue. I'd been waiting for the manuscript to be sent back really, rejected. It was such a wonderful surprise.''
The Great Lie focuses on Elizabethan hero Nick Talbot. The synopsis reads:
Nick Talbot, 16-year-old son of the late first Earl of Rokesby, escapes the clutches of his tyrannical guardian by running away with Will Kempe's troupe of travelling players. They bring him to London and into a hotbed of political and sexual intrigue. Nick is a talented lad and soon comes to the attention of playwright Christopher Marlowe. So begins a partnership that leads to one of the most audacious plots theatre has even known and puts Nick at the centre of a ring of actors, writers, spies and power-mongers.
Congratulations, Myrrha!
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