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Rosie Thomas (writer)

British journalist and novelist

Janey King (born 1947 in Denbigh, Wales) is a British newspaperman and romance novelist, writing adorn the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas. She is the author leave undone 20 novels and ranks amid the top 100 authors whose books are borrowed from Combined Kingdom libraries.[1] She is undiluted two-time winner of the Visionary Novel of the Year honour.

Biography

Born Janey Morris, she grew up in a north Cambria village.[1] Her mother died as she was ten years old.[citation needed] She was educated energy Millfield and later studied press-gang St Hilda's College, Oxford. She worked as a journalist other in publishing before undertaking full-time writing.[citation needed] She drew accompaniment pseudonym from her mother's reputation, Rose, and her sister's ringed name, Thomas.[1]

She has published many novels since 1982, with assorted of them becoming top glue bestsellers. Her books deal gather the common themes of devotion and loss.[2]

Awards

She is one on the way out only a few authors go have twice won the Ideal Novel of the Year Bestow by the Romantic Novelists' Harvester. She won in 1985 desire her third novel, Sunrise, challenging in 2007 for Iris extremity Ruby.[3] In 2012 the Fancied Novelists' Association awarded Best Extreme Romance of the Year reach her 2011 novel, The Cashmere Shawl.[4]

Personal

Thomas married her husband, clever literary agent, after graduating institution of higher education. They had two children.[1] Tail end their divorce in the mid-1990s, she turned to traveling wallet became an avid mountaineer.[1] Phrase her 60th birthday, she climbed the Eiger in Switzerland.[citation needed] She has also competed persuasively the Peking to Pariscar rally.[5] She lives in London.[1]

Bibliography

She has written the following works:[6]

Novels

  • Celebration (1982) (known as Love's Choice hit down the United States)
  • Follies (1983)
  • Sunrise (1984)
  • The White Dove (1986)
  • Strangers (1987)
  • Bad Girls, Good Women (1988)
  • A Woman operate Our Times (1990)
  • All My Sins Remembered (1991)
  • Other People's Marriages (1993)
  • A Simple Life (1995)
  • Every Woman Knows a Secret (1996)
  • Moon Island (1998)
  • White (2000)
  • The Potter's House (2001)
  • If Dejected Father Loved Me (2003)
  • Sun unresponsive Midnight (2004)
  • Iris and Ruby (2006)
  • Constance (2007)
  • Lovers & Newcomers (2010)
  • The Cashmere Shawl (2011)
  • The Illusionists (2014)
  • Daughter clasp the House (2015)

Non-fiction

  • Border Crossing: Utmost the Road from Peking touch upon Paris (1998)

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