Jenny Ashcroft lives in Brighton with her husband and two children. Before that, she spent many years living and working in Australia and Asia - a time which gave her an enduring passion for stories set in exotic places. She has a degree in history, and has always been fascinated by the past - in particular the way that extraordinary events can transform the lives of normal people
The Housekeeper's Secret (2024) Iona Grey "Moving from the heartbreak and terror of the Western Front, to the closed, deeply atmospheric below stairs world of Coldwell Hall, this brilliantly researched and beautifully written novel had me captivated from the moment I read its intensely moving opening pages, not letting me go again until I tearfully turned the last. I rooted for Kate, fell completely in love with Jem, and will hold their unforgettable story close for a very long time to come."
The Paris Muse (2024) Louisa Treger "Intensely powerful and immersive, The Paris Muse is a wonder of a novel. With her artful prose, and incredible story-telling, Louisa Treger had me equal parts fascinated and gripped. I'll be thinking about this compelling tale for a very long time to come."
The Paris Affair (2024) Fiona Schneider "I loved every page of this gorgeous, transportive, and highly moving tale. Packed with love and longing, mystery and romance, it kept me reading late into the night. Wonderful!"
The Mystery of Haverford House (2024) Rachel Burton "I was swept away, desperate to unlock the mystery... I really couldn't have enjoyed it more... gorgeous... atmospheric... page-turning plot... it might just be Rachel Burton's best novel yet!"
A Beautiful Rival (2023) Gill Paul "No one writes like Gill Paul. She has this incredible gift for spinning fact into fiction, immersing the reader utterly in the brilliant, page-turning worlds she creates, bringing the most iconic of figures to vivid, sparkling life. In A Beautiful Rival, she does this for famed rivals, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, portraying their passion. ambition, loves, and insecurities, so truly that I've been left feeling I know them. I think this might just be her best yet!"
The Maiden (2023) Kate Foster "I simply could not have loved this novel more. In Christian and Violet, Kate Foster has created two unforgettable characters, whose stories I became utterly and delightedly glued to. Page-turning, transportive, funny, and tremendously moving, The Maiden is a book to lose yourself in - just make sure you don't have any plans, because once you start reading, you won't want to stop."
The Hidden Letters (2023) Lorna Cook "With shades of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth, and her trademark combination of unputdownable plot and beautiful writing, Lorna Cook has had me utterly captivated with her latest. The Hidden Letters has it all - heartbreak and redemption, intense love and desperate loss. It's the type of book that first made me fall in love with reading, I adored every sumptuous, atmospheric page, and can't recommend it highly enough."
Stay Buried (2022) (DI Lockyer, book 1) Kate Webb "Kate Webb has had me completely hooked with her page-turning plot, incredible characterisation, and beautiful, atmospheric writing. An utterly gripping story brilliantly told. I can't wait for Kate's next one!"
The Man I Never Met (2022) Elle Cook "Heartfelt, deeply moving, and so wonderfully romantic. This is the book everyone needs to be curling up with."
The Halfways (2022) Nilopar Uddin "This novel is an absolute beauty, and already one of my favourites for 2022. Nilopar Uddin's writing is entrancing, her characterisation, brilliant. In The Halfways, she has quite genuinely taken my breath away."
London, With Love (2022) Sarra Manning "London, With Love is just all kinds of glorious, one minute moving me to tears, the next making me snort with laughter. I'm going to be pressing it into the hands of all my friends and family."
Love in a Time of War (2022) (Three Fry Sisters, book 1) Adrienne Chinn "Rich, evocative and utterly immersive, this beautifully written book swept me away."
What Might Have Been (2022) Holly Miller "One of those novels that sweeps you up from the very first page and doesn't let you go until long after the last. I was completely hooked . . . It's a novel that breathes heart and hope and which I can't recommend highly enough. I adored it."
The Rose Garden (2021) Tracy Rees "...gorgeously written, deeply atmospheric, tense and vivid and a total page-turner."
The Last Day (2018) Claire Dyer "Exquisitely written and completely immersive, The Last Day caught me up from the very first page. With taut, page-turning plotting, intense emotion, and characters who live and breathe so real, I now feel I know them this book was a complete joy, one I didn't want to finish, but which I know will stay with me for a very long time."
