From her earliest years, Lady Raquel felt herself drawn to the civilising arts of painting and story-making. With brush and pen alike, she found a means by which to give form to her inward vision of the world—one shaped by imagination, tenderness, and quiet wonder. Books were to her not merely a pastime, but a liberty: an invitation to dream, to strengthen the spirit, and to conceive that life itself might be gently fashioned by one’s own hand.
Her tales offer both children and women a retreat from the ordinary, into a world kept apart and carefully tended. There is something most agreeable—indeed, most restorative—in such a removal; a return to the faculties of imagination, contemplation, and hope, which so often lie neglected in daily life.
Lady Raquel’s work is guided by the example of women who lived according to their own inward compass—Beatrix Potter, Tasha Tudor, and Laura Ingalls Wilder—each of whom possessed the courage to shape her surroundings, her labour, and her stories in accordance with her convictions. They did not merely describe the world as they found it, but quietly set about creating the one they wished to inhabit. Such an idea—that an artist may order her small corner of life with intention—is one Lady Raquel holds in great esteem.
Her illustrated storybooks bear a fond kinship to those of her English predecessor, Beatrix Potter, in their attention to detail, moral gentleness, and reverence for the small and overlooked. Mermaids, rabbits, and other modest creatures populate her pages, each carrying a quiet wisdom of its own. Woven among their adventures are delicate reflections drawn from lived experience, placed there not to instruct, but to encourage young readers to regard life with curiosity, courage, and a certain kindly magic.
“Should you find pleasure in Beatrix’s rabbits,” Lady Raquel writes, “you may also take delight in my mermaids, bunnies, and little animals. Into each story I have sewn a portion of my own experience, that young hearts might learn to behold the world through a mermaid’s looking glass.”
— Lady Raquel M. Carter
The Tale of MerryMaid Scarlette Rose
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The Tale of Merrymaid Scarlette Rose:
A mischievous and disobedient young mermaid, Scarlette Rose, is chased about the water garden of the antagonist, Sir Mr Barbaric. Finally, she escapes and returns home to her mother, who puts her to bed after dosing her with tea. It is a tale that encourages following one's heart, seeking joy and trust in ourselves, and sowing what you reap.
Hence, if we believe in our power, we will always find our way home {true north}. This tale is derivative of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.
Sawyer and Johnny Lamb are sent away on a spirited adventure where they become lost on the way to town. The butcher takes Sawyer Lamb in, who has already stolen another lamb (Briar Rose), and the butcher's intentions are not as altruistic as the lambs expect, and things go off course.
Forthcoming!
Deceit and Dissension
Deceit and Dissension is a British romantic drama set in nineteenth-century England that explores the quiet power of truth in a society governed by appearances.
Elizabeth, born into a family of landed gentry, was raised in careful seclusion, educated for refinement rather than independence, obedience rather than inquiry. Her marriage to the Duke of Winchester secures her social position but leaves her increasingly aware of the emotional and moral confines of her world. Life at Eccleshall Castle introduces her to a different measure of character, where sincerity and integrity exist beyond rank, and where affection grows not from entitlement, but from understanding.
When Elizabeth's awakening threatens the carefully maintained order of her marriage, deception is employed to preserve respectability at any cost. Forced into an impossible choice, she must reckon with the consequences of truth in a society that rewards silence and punishes defiance.
Deceit and Dissension tells a story of restrained passion, moral tension, and quiet rebellion as a woman crosses class boundaries, confronts the weaponisation of hypocrisy, and discovers that integrity may demand everything she has been taught to protect.
Forthcoming!
The Little Mermaid's Transformational Tale
Forthcoming February 2025!
~The Little Mermaid's Transformational Tale
More books forthcoming from Raquel:
~The Tale of Henny Penny Goody Two-Shoes
~The Tale of Oliver Rabbit
~The Tale of Patsy Violet
~The Tale of Diggity-Diggity Dave
~The Tale of Sybrena Ewe
~The Tale of Mrs Nevermore Raven
~The Tale of Melinda Little Mouse
~The Tale of Captain Jack
~The Tale of Squirrel Sadie
~The Tale of Hoppity-Hoppity John
~The Tale of Johnny Crow
~The Tale of Tizzy Withers
~The Tale of Amber Pony
~The Tale of Two Bad Mermaids
~The Little Mermaid's Transformational Tale
~Deceit and Dissension
