Royal Family News: Sarah Ferguson’s First Booked Panned But Working On A Second One

British royal family news reveals that Sarah Ferguson is a bona fide bodice ripper success. Fresh off the debut of her first published romance novel comes news that she has signed on the dotted line for another book.

Sarah Ferguson just released the title Her Heart For A Compass, which is loosely based on the life of her ancestor Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott, and features a feisty red-headed royal rogue—sound like anyone we know?

Royal Family New -: Sarah Ferguson Is A Literary Success

Despite her book garnering tons of negative reviews the publisher is riding with the former royal who was once married to Prince Andrew.

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According to the Daily Mail, “Critics branded the book ‘boring’ and a ‘slog’ with an ‘insipid’ main character and a tone that jumps between ‘archaic and contemporary’. Almost all commented on the lack of sex and said it was at the ‘PG end’ of Mills & Boon.”

Royal Family News – Sarah Ferguson To Write A Second Romance Novel

Sarah Ferguson wrote the book with Margarete Kaye who has written more than 60 books. Sarah told Radio 4’s Front Row, “People try to put Fergie into a box, or Sarah or the Duchess into a box, saying “look at her, why is she doing this, why is she doing that?”

“We all have self-doubt. But it was really exciting to grow together in friendship and collaboration and we’re both very unified together in this book Her Heart For A Compass. So much so, we’ve signed our next book deal.”

Sarah said the Covid-19 pandemic, “gave her the opportunity to write the book, which she claims to have been thinking about for more than 15 years.”

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She told the show, “The pandemic also tapped me on the shoulder and said are you going to waste your life and never do what you want to do? Are you going to be in the front line helping people, nurses, NHS workers? I believe Lady Margaret would have done that, she would have risen to the challenge.”

Sarah Ferguson did not try to hide the similarity between herself and her heroine. She said, “I believe that any good storyteller includes journeys that parallel their own life. It’s really a total work of fiction. On the other hand, it’s rather like Who Do You Think You Are?, the TV show. Telling my ancestry of my grandmothers, my maternal and paternal grandparents.”

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