Janet grew up in a house with lots of books but didn’t learn to read properly until she was seven! After that there was no stopping her. Her love of reading lead her to work in publishing where she was part of the Harry Potter legend, proof-reading the original Philosopher’s Stone manuscript and leaving in lots of mistakes. Now those first editions are worth thousands. An actress even plays her in dubious TV film, Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story.
 

Her first children’s book The Whole Joke Book was Bloomsbury Children’s Books bestselling title until Harry Potter knocked it of its perch. After the writing bug bit her she published several other children’s books, more recently under the pseudonym of Jess Bright. 
 

Her first novel for adults, The Single Mums’ Mansion, reached the number one slot on the Amazon fiction charts. Two more books subsequently joined the bestselling series: The Single Mums Move On and The Single Mums’ Secrets.
 

Who Do You Think You Are Maggie Pink? was published by Boldwood to rave reviews in 2022 and reached number one on several Amazon charts in the UK, Australia and the US. This was followed by Us Two in 2023. Her new novel, The Swim, about a woman swimming the English Channel, is published on May 7th 2025.

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Janet lives with her husband, three children and an extremely needy ginger cat in East Dulwich, London.