Amanda Jennings
Amanda Jennings (* 1973 in London ) is a British writer .
Life
Amanda Jennings grew up in a village in the rural Berkshire county of southern England. The daughter of an architect first studied architecture , but after a year switched to art history and completed her studies at the University of Cambridge , where she also taught in the following years . She later worked for the BBC in production for a while .
In the end, however, she turned entirely to her real talent, writing, and published several psychological tension novels, often set in Cornwall . Jennings made her literary debut in 2012 with the novel Sworn Secrets , which became an international bestseller and has since been published in an Italian and a Chinese translation. With The Judas Scar , In Her Wake and The Cliff House , three more works followed in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuchverlag published the German edition of In Her Wake in 2017 under the title Your darkest secret .
Jennings is regular guest presenter in the weekly Book Club of BBC Radio Berkshire and likes to talk on literary festivals , libraries and book clubs. At the annual Henley Youth Festival , she is a regular juror in the creative writing competition . She is also involved on a voluntary basis in the WoMentoring project , in which successful authors support and encourage young up-and-coming authors free of charge as mentors .
She lives with her husband and three daughters in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire .
Works
- Sworn Secret . Canvas, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-84901-969-9 (English).
- The Judas Scar . Cutting Edge Press, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-908122-71-1 (English).
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In Her Wake . Orenda Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-910633-29-8 (English).
- Your darkest secret . Bastei Lübbe paperback, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-404-17647-2 (German by Christina Neuhaus).
- The Cliff House . Harper Collins, London 2018, ISBN 978-0-00-825036-2 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amanda Jennings: In Her Wake. Orenda Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4956-2773-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jennings, Amanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , UK |