Author buys River Tay mansion

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Author buys River Tay mansion


Author buys River Tay mansion. HARRY Potter creator JK Rowling has bought a Tayside mansion to get away from it all. 
As the Potter hype grows after the release of the blockbuster film, the author is expected to enjoy the seclusion of her new home to write the next instalment of her boy wizard saga. 
Contractors working on Killiechassie HouseKilliechassie House is a 19th century estate house, situated on the banks of the River Tay, near Aberfeldy, in Perth and Kinross. The current owner of the house is J. K. Rowling, who purchased it in November 2001[1] for the sum of approximately £600,000. 
Click the link for more information., near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, have been sworn to secrecy. 
But selling agents CKD Finlayson Hughes confirmed yesterday that Rowling had bought the mid-Victorian mansion.

They declined to comment on the price but it is believed to be a significant six-figure sum. 
Rowling, who began the Harry Potter books while living in Edinburgh, is thought to have a pounds 25million fortune, which will be boosted further by the success of the film. She currently has luxury homes in both Edinburgh and London.
Residents of Aberfeldy said the town had been awash with rumours about her arrival for the last few weeks. 
John Allan, 37, said: "I haven't seen her around myself, but a few people have told me she's been seen in town. 
"My kids love the books and have seen the film twice so they will be excited she's moving here. This is a lovely part of the country and I'm sure locals will give her a warm welcome."

J. K. Rowling Bio,

Rowling was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom in 1965 to Peter and Anne Rowling. Together with her mother, father, and younger sister Dianne, she moved to Winterbourne, Bristol and then to Tutshill near Chepstow. She attended secondary school at Wyedean Comprehensive, where she told stories to her fellow students. In 1990, her 45-year-old mother succumbed to a decade-long battle with multiple sclerosis. This affected her very much. Growing up her relationship with her father was strained, and as a result she has not spoken to him in recent years. She has also said that because of her lack of a proper father there are many father 
J.K. Rowling in her childhood
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figures for Harry in her books.
Rowling studied for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter, which she says was a "bit of a shock" as she "was expecting to be amongst lots of similar people– thinking radical thoughts." Once she made friends with "some like-minded people" she says she began to enjoy herself.[2] She wrote a short essay titled "What was the Name of that Nymph Again? or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled" and published it in the university journal Pegasus, which recounts her time at Exeter studying for her BA in Classics.[3] After a year of study in Paris, Rowling moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International.[4] During this period, she had the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry while she was on a four-hour delayed train trip between Manchester and London. When she had reached her destination, she already had in her head the characters and a good part of the plot for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which she began working on during her lunch hours.
Rowling then moved to Porto, Portugal, to teach English as a foreign language. While there she married Portuguese TV journalist Jorge Arantes on 16 October, 1992. They had one child, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes (born 27 July, 1993), before their divorce in 1995.
In December of 1994, she and her daughter moved to be near her sister in Edinburgh. Unemployed and living on state benefits, she completed her first novel, doing some of the work in an Edinburgh café. (There is a widely circulated rumour that she wrote in a local café to escape from her unheated flat.
Rowling's publisher, Bloomsbury, wanted to use initials on the cover of the Harry Potter books, suggesting that if they used an obviously female name, the target group of young boys might be reluctant to buy them. Since Rowling didn't have a middle name she chose to adopt her grandmother's name, Kathleen, for the middle initial.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was a huge success, and she has thus far published six sequels. The sales made her a multi-millionaire, and in 2001, she purchased a luxurious 19th-century mansion, Killiechassie House, on the banks of the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland, where she married her second husband, Dr. Neil Murray, on 26 December 2001.

The Harry Potter series runs seven volumes, one for each year Harry spends in school. The series is complete. The fifth book, titled Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was delayed by an unsuccessful plagiarism suit directed towards her by rival author Nancy Stouffer (see below). Rowling took some time off from writing at this point, because during the process of writing the fifth book she felt her workload was too heavy. She said that at one point she had considered breaking her arm to get out of writing, because the pressure on her was too much. After forcing her publishers to drop her deadline, she enjoyed three years of quiet writing, commenting that she spent some time working on something else that she might return to when she is finished with the Harry Potter series. The fifth book was released on 21 June 2003.
In late 2003, she was approached by television producer Russell T. Davies to contribute an episode to the British television science-fiction series Doctor Who. Although she was "amused by the suggestion", she turned the offer down, as she was busy working on the next novel in the Potter series. On 20 December 2004 she announced that the sixth Harry Potter book would be released on 16 July 2005.