Katherine Greenhalgh reads one of Lena Kennedy's romantic novels at Hoo Library

by Lynn Cox

An exhibition celebrating the life and work of romantic fiction writer, Lena Kennedy, is being held at Hoo Library.
The display includes some of her scrap books and novels which she began writing in her 50s.
Her first book was published when she was 64, and she died in 1986, aged 72.
Her stories were mostly historic, romantic fiction set in and around the East End of London, where she lived for most of her life.
She is buried at Cliffe, and wrote 16 best sellers and wrote her autobiography, Away to the Woods, in which she describes the shack-dwelling community in Cliffe Woods.
Some of her books were published posthumously.
Her daughter Angela Smith opened the display, at the library in Church Street, on Saturday, August 1. It ends on Monday, August 31.