Dinah Jefferies was lucky that her second novel The Tea-Planter’s Wife became a Sunday Times No.1, Kindle No.1, and Richard & Judy bestseller. Since then she’s had further Sunday Times top 10s, a second Richard & Judy Book Club pick, and become an international best seller.

Jefferies was born in Malaysia but moved to the UK at the age of nine, going on to study fashion design, work in Tuscany as an au pair for an Italian countess, and live with a rock band in a commune in Suffolk.

A family tragedy changed everything, and she draws on the experience of loss in her writing, infusing love, loss, and danger with the seductive escapism of her locations. The sense of place, of history and of human nature is a heady mix in the novels.

Published in 29 languages in over 30 countries, she is currently writing an epic series for her new publisher Harper Collins (her 8th, 9th, and 10th novels) starting with Daughters of War set in 1944 in France (Sept  2021). She has always loved Italy but spent some years living in a tiny 16th Century village in Northern Andalusia, Spain. Now she is delighted to have settled close to her family in the South West of England along with her husband and two enormous and very lovely Maine Coon cats.

Her last book, The Tuscan Contessa, marked a new departure for her as it was her first set in Europe.