Hello!
The best way to get in touch is by email.
You can reach me at n@nataliefergie.com
I’m the author of two novels with a third due in 2027.
The Sewing Machine follows the makers and owners of a Singer 99k sewing machine, manufactured in 1911 in Clydebank in Scotland. You will go into the factory and meet a couple of the workers, and then trace the stories of the people who owned and used the machine over more than a hundred years. Read about their troubles and dreams, and discover the projects they stitched into their lives with a simple hand crank sewing machine.
The novel has sold more than 200,000 copies and is published by Embla. It has been translated into German, Dutch, Greek and Russian, with Arabic (Egypt), Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian on the way.
25 Library Terrace is a house in Edinburgh. You will first visit this unusual home in 1908 when it is just a building site, and then come back in the years of the National Census in 1911, 1931 and 2011. The novel ends in 2022 just after the Covid pandemic which caused the Scottish Census to be delayed by a year. Explore early vegetarianism, painting and decorating, the arrival of modern technology, and changing social conditions.
It is published by Embla will soon be available in translation in Ukraine and Italy.
My next novel will be published in 2027 by Black and White Publishing.
My agent is Charlotte Seymour at Johnson and Alcock in London.