Victoria Connelly is the bestselling author of 50 books including 25 novels. She grew up in Norfolk and started writing her first novel when she was fourteen. She studied English Literature at Worcester University, reading the tragedies of Shakespeare and the novels of Thomas Hardy and knowing that she wanted to write stories with happy endings.
Her first novel Flights of Angels was bought in a bidding war between five publishers and was made into a film by Academy award-winning Ziegler Film.
Molly’s Millions quickly followed and was a Top Ten bestseller on Amazon. A Weekend with Mr Darcy, the first in her Austen Addicts series, has sold over 100,000 copies. The second in the series, The Perfect Hero was featured on Channel 5’s The Vanessa Show and was a hot pick in The Sun.
The Runaway Actress – a romantic comedy about a movie star who swaps Hollywood for the Highlands – was shortlisted for the RNA’s Best Romantic Comedy of the Year. Her novels, Wish You Were Here, A Summer to Remember, The Rose Girls, Love in an English Garden and The Beauty of Broken Things have all been Amazon bestsellers.
She is also the author of three collections of short stories as well as two children’s novels, numerous novellas and the Mulberry Cottage series. To date, her books have sold over one million copies worldwide.
She lives in a 500-year old thatched cottage in rural Suffolk with her artist husband, a springer spaniel and a flock of rescued hens.