Welcome to new visitors; I hope you'll find this site helpful and that you find the information that you want, both about my writings and about Thrumpton Hall, the beautiful house and landscaped park that my family offer for filming, in-house and marquee weddings and events. You can contact me directly about book-related questions on mirandajseymour@btinternet.com.
For information about Thrumpton Hall, please visit www.thrumptonhall.com. I am currently writing a non-fiction account of the love affair between England and Germany that ended in 1940.

Featured appearances

In September 2010, Miranda took part in the French ceremony to honour the memory of Helle Nice, The Bugatti Queen, whose life she researched for her book (see The Bugatti Queen). This has led to the creation of a Helle Nice society in the US and a Helle Nice Society at Sainte Mesme, where Helle is now honoured as a celebrated member of the community.

For further details about Association Souvenir Helle Nice (Association for the memory of Helle Nice), contact Louis Dejean and Bruno Perrin.

On 11 July, Miranda will be speaking about biography and memoir at The Buxton Festival in Derbyshire.

Miranda has also been participating in a film being made about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, to be screened in September.

19th November Miranda Seymour will be speaking with Daisy Hay about Romantic Literature for Slightly Foxed, at Queen Square, London.

20 December, Miranda will be speaking at the Challenges to Biography symposium at 11.15 at Nottingham University. Tickets available.  Contact Ray Monk for further details at R.Monk@soton.ac.uk

You can find out more about Miranda's story at www.thrumptonhall.com

Memoir: In My Father's House

Both biography and family memoir, Miranda Seymour's celebrated book - IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE - (winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for best memoir of the year) is a riveting and ultimately shocking portrait of desire both overt and suppressed, and the devastating consequences of misplaced love.

Widely acclaimed in the US, Thrumpton Hall / In My Father's House was a New York Times Book of the Year choice.

"Miranda Seymour's cathartic memoir of her father's obsessive love for a house is a brave expose of a private family" Daily Mail 2/2

"The shocking nature, the strangeness and brilliance of this extraordinary work…beautifully written and expertly structured"

Buy it from Amazon.co.uk HERE

Commemoration for Helle Nice Delangle

Helle Nice Delangle, one of the great women drivers of the twentieth century, died in Nice in 1984 - friendless and forgotten. She is buried in the cemetery at Sainte Mesme where the family grave doesn't even record her name.

Thanks to the publication of The Bugatti Queen and to The Helle Nice Foundation (for women in sport) which Sheryl Green was inspired by the book to create, Helle Nice's name has been cleared of vicious slanders and given the honour she deserved.

On 4 September, 2010, a commemorative plaque recording her principal achievements will be placed beside the family plot at Ste Mesme (just outside Paris)

Miranda Seymour, Sheryl Greene, Patricia Yongue and many eminent representatives of the French sports world will be the speakers and we invite you to join us. Five hundred visitors are currently planning to attend.

For further information, contact:

Association Souvenir Helle Nice
9 rue du Buisson, 78780 Sainte-Mesme
or
bruno.perrin3@wanadoo.fr

Helle Nice’s grave may be visited anytime at the Sainte Mesme village graveyard. about 45 minutes southwest of Paris (see maps below). The local “Souvenir Hellé Nice” association members will be pleased to help you and spend some time talking about Helle Nice’s achievements with you if you wish. You may contact Henry Kahan at 33 (+0) 963 256 048, or Bruno Perrin at 33 (+0) 130 594 239.