Ladies Summer Reads Pack

About Julia WilliamsKate LawsonTrisha Ashley

Julia has always made up stories in her head and until recently she thought everyone else did too. She grew up in London one of eight children including a twin sister. She married Dave a dentist in 1989 and they have four daughters. After the birth of the second Julia went freelance and decided to try her hand at writing. Ten bestselling books later it''s safe to say the gamble paid off! To date Julia''s books have sold over half a million copies. Kate Lawson was born on the edge of the Fens and is perfectly placed to write about the vagaries of life in East Anglia. In between moving house raising a family singing in a choir walking the dog working in the garden taking endless photos and cooking Kate is also a scriptwriter originating and developing a soap opera for local radio along with a pantomime for the town in which she lives. Writing as Gemma Fox Kate was short-listed for the Melissa Nathan Comedy Romance Award in 2006. Trisha Ashley is the author of nineteen romantic comedies including her most recent book The Garden of Forgotten Wishes which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic comedies of the last fifty years. Trisha is from St Helens in West Lancashire and now lives in North Wales.