Sadly Nicky died on 7th October 2020 after a year of cancer treatment, handled with her usual style and humour. Please feel free to share your thoughts, memories and stories here, no matter how silly or black humoured.

The PDA Society was a charity close to her heart and she would be dead chuffed if people were to spend their money donating to a good cause than on flowers and wreaths. She would also have no shame about having a cheeky plug for her books too:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicola-Slade/e/B0034Q1G8W%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

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Chandlers Ford author, Nicola Slade (77) has died. She was an award-winning, bestselling author of historical and contemporary mysteries and romantic fiction, all set in an around Winchester and Romsey in Hampshire, UK. The House at Ladywell - a contemporary romantic novel with historical echoes - won the Chatelaine Grand Prize for Romantic Fiction at the CIBA awards in April 2019, in Washington State, USA.

She was brought up in Poole and lived in various places with her family, including Cairo, Egypt. In 1981 the family moved to Chandlers Ford and all three of her children went to Thornden School.

She wrote The Charlotte Richmond Mysteries, set in 1858 and located in a fictional version of Otterbourne, as well as the contemporary Harriet Quigley Mysteries all set in and around Winchester. Her first published novel - in 2005 - was the romantic comedy Scuba Dancing which was set in Ramalley, a fictional version of Romsey, as was The House at Ladywell and it's sequel, Christmas at Ladywell. In 2019 she wrote The Convalescent Corpse, the first in a new historical mystery series set in 1918 - this was also set in 'Ramalley.' Amazingly, she fought deteriorating health in 2020 to complete the second in this series, The Merry Month of Murder.