Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Published since 1982 as Rosie Thomas, she has written fourteen best-selling novels, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 1985 with Sunrise, and in 2007 with Iris and Ruby.
Janey is an adventurer and once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She currently lives in London.
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Fiction, Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships, History, London (england), fiction, Adultery, English fiction, Female friendship, Fiction, action & adventure, Large type books, Romance fiction, Women, England, fiction, Families, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Friendship, Friendship, fiction, Love stories, Married people, Married women, Middle-aged women, Mountaineering, Social life and customs, Teenage girlsPlaces
London (England), Spain, Antarctica, California, Everest, Mount (China and Nepal), Maine, Mount (China and Nepal) Everest, Nantlas, New York (N.Y.), North Carolina, WalesID Numbers
- OLID: OL582557A
- ISNI: 000000012029143X
- VIAF: 79059511
- Wikidata: Q7368928
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q7368928
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- Janey Morris King
- Rosie Thomas
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