Juliet West | Author | The Faithful

Welcome. I’m a writer and my latest novel The Faithful is out now. It’s been chosen as a top summer read in Prima, Red and Good Housekeeping magazines - read reviews here. You can find me on Twitter for more news and book-related chat. Thanks for visiting!

Praise for The Faithful

A wonderful novel about desire and its consequences, set amongst the sharply-divided politics of the 1930s. A page-turner.

William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier.

Rich in period detail and told with warmth, wit and passion. Wonderful.

Jason Hewitt, author of Dynamite Room and Devastation Road

An evocative sense of time and place. I loved it.

Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons

Vibrant prose and characters. So well-drawn, and incredibly topical.

Vanessa LaFaye, author of Summertime and At First Light

Rich and multi-layered … At once heartbreaking and full of hope.

Isabel Ashdown, author of Glasshopper and Little Sister

Vivid and unforgettable … A must-read.

Ann Weisgarber, author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree and The Promise

A twisting plot in a little-known era - I was totally absorbed.

Lissa Evans, author of Their Finest and Crooked Heart

About Juliet

Juliet West grew up in Worthing, West Sussex, and studied history at Cambridge University. She worked as a journalist before taking an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University, where she graduated with distinction and won the Kate Betts’ Memorial Prize.

The Faithful

July 1935. In the Sussex village of Aldwick, sixteen-year-old Hazel is dreading another long, dull summer. But then Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts set up camp nearby, and Hazel’s summer suddenly becomes more interesting. She finds herself befriended by two very different people: Lucia, an upper-class blackshirt, fiercely passionate about the cause; and working-class Tom, increasingly scornful of Mosley’s rhetoric. As Britain is pulled towards war, Hazel’s life goes into freefall. A tangle of secrets threatens to snare her, and she must decide where to place her trust…

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