Client details

Susan Barrett's career began in film and television, working as a researcher, director and producer on a variety of magazine programmes, documentaries and children's programming for all the major UK broadcasters. Since having children, Susan has worked freelance, writing treatments for TV and working as script doctor on feature film scripts for an independent features production company. She has spent the past three years immersed in the mores, language and social fabric of the late Victorian era.

Latest Publications:

THE INCONSTANT HUSBAND, Headline, (04 Sep 2006)

A captivating "fin de siecle" melodrama - an artist's muse tells "her" side of the story. When Patrick McKinley steps through the window of her drawing room, Rose Seaton's fate is sealed: this flame-haired apparition in white flannels -- an "artist" -- could not be more different to her approved suitors, the lumpen sons of Yorkshire industry. But when Rose elopes with Patrick to Paris, the "vie de boheme" quickly loses its lustre, and when she finds herself penniless and pregnant -- in an artist's colony in Cornwall -- she repents her impetuous choice. Might it be that she would have been wiser to accept the hand of the rising star in her father's firm: dependable, stammering Harold Webb? Susan Barrett offers us a captivating portrait of a young woman's sentimental education, and discovery of a life beyond the gilded cage of her upbringing.