Sharley Scott

Sharley Scott is the author of the Devon Seaside Guesthouse novels - Bedlam & Breakfast and B&Bers Behaving Madly - and the Maddie Meadows series.

Sharley is a guesthouse owner in South Devon. She is thankful to have been blessed with lots of amazing and kind-hearted guests, who are nothing like some of the fictional characters featured in the Devon Seaside Guesthouse series.

The Two Lives of Maddie Meadows - and its sequel The Gift of a Rose - portrays the life of a working single mum. Some of the mischief Maddie's little one, Josh, gets up to will be familiar to all parents. In real life, Sharley has carried out the threats she made to her son decades ago and now gets her own back him by telling tales to his girlfriend (some of the incidents in the books are inspired by him), although he returns the favour by recounting utterly embarrassing stories about his mum.

Sharley's subsequent novel ‘A Little Birdie Told Me…’ goes back in time to the late eighties: a time of fun music, interesting fashion, strange hairstyles and no internet or mobile phones. Fancy having to talk to each other! (Says the author who frequents Facebook too often).

Her latest book, Mishaps and Mayhem at the Little Shop on Beach Street, links with the Devon Seaside Guesthouse series, although it is a standalone novel. Currently, it is available as an ebook. The paperback version will be available shortly. This book is set in the fictional town of Torringham in south Devon. Join the madcap traders on their quest to save their livelihoods and a friend's pooch.