A WRITER who learned her trade at a Worcester college has been shortlisted for an award for her debut novel.
Victoria Connelly, aged 34, has had a number of short stories published but has now finished her first novel, Flights of Angels.
A graduate of the former Worcester College of Higher Education - which is now known as University College Worcester - she has been nominated for the Romantic Novelists' Association's New Writers' Award, which is given for the best debut novel.
The winner of the annual award will be presented with a cheque for £1,000 and a silver rose bowl at a Romantic Novelists' ceremony in London today.
Flights of Angels is about a young widow who discovers she has a group of angels to help her through the grieving process.
It was inspired when Mrs Connelly's husband, a news cameraman, was sent to a war zone just five weeks after they got married.
Mrs Connelly graduated from Worcester in 1992 with a degree in English Literature and now lives in West London.
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