![]() Georgette had happy memories of childhood holidays spent in Sussex visiting her grandparents and this may have been a factor in their choosing Sussex as the county in which to find their new home. A map showing Horsham and the surrounding villages and hamlets where Georgette Heyer lived and set some of her novels. ![]() By April 1931, Georgette and Ronald had decided to move to Sussex. As an author, she was used to isolation, but even outside of her writing life, Georgette did not seek the bright lights and and busy social whirl of London. And then in Macedonia she had lived in a small medieval village, happy to write without the interruption of a busy social life or chatty neighburs (she didn’t speak the language). Isolated from the world back home and from the countless reminders of her loss, living a grass hut in a remote compound, the only expatriate woman for 150 miles, she had begun writing again. It was during her time in Tanganyika that she had healed. ![]() Her father’s death in 1925 had been a cataclysmic event in her life and her overwhelming grief had kept her from writing for over two years. Perhaps it was her penchant for privacy that made the idea of country living so appealing to Georgette. The dustjacket of the1934 reprint of Footsteps in the Darkhad the same picture as the 1932 first edition but with the addition of the Longman triangle. It was there that she would write her first detective-thriller, Footsteps in the Dark. Unfortunately, the investment did not reap the hoped-for rewards and by October they had decided to leave London and move to the country. Once home, the Rougiers lived at 62 Stanhope Gardens for some months and Ronald invested in a partnership in a gas, light and coke company in the Horseferry Road. As she explained to her friend Carola Oman, if she was going to have a baby then she wanted to have it in England. They had returned home in part because Georgette had decided that they should try for a baby which, for her atleast, meant no more overseas postings. It cannot have been an altogether easy transition, as they had no home of their own in England and jobs for mining engineers were not easy to find once back in Britain. In April 1930 Georgette Heyer had returned to England from Macedonia where her husband, Ronald Rougier, had been working as a mining engineer in the lead mines near the Bulgarian border.
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