Wendy Holden (author, born 1965)

Wendy Holden (born 12 June 1965[1]) is a best-selling British novelist.[2]

Not to be confused with Wendy Holden (author, born 1961), novelist and journalist.
Wendy Holden
Born12 June 1965 (1965-06-12) (age 55)
Cleckheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire
OccupationNovelist

Holden was born and raised in Cleckheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire.[3] She attended Whitcliffe Mount School,[4] and read English at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University in the mid-1980s. Holden moved to London where she found work in the magazine business, eventually working for The Diplomat monthly, where she became an editor, and from there, she moved on to The Sunday Times.[3] One of her responsibilities at the title was ghostwriting a column on behalf of socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, an experience which Holden says influenced her first novel, Simply Divine.[3]

Simply Divine was published in 1999, and Holden went on to write a series of novels, most of which were bestsellers, and which she happily describes as "chick lit" and "supermarket novels".[3]

Holden is married, has two children, and now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.[3]

Publications
  • Simply Divine (1999)
  • Bad Heir Day
  • Pastures Nouveaux
  • Fame Fatale
  • Azur Like It
  • The Wives of Bath
  • The School for Husbands
  • Filthy Rich
  • Beautiful People
  • Gallery Girl
  • Marrying Up
  • Gifted and Talented
  • Wild and Free
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References
  1. Holden, Wendy (2004). Azure Like It. Thorndike Press. pp. About the Author. ISBN 9780786263981.
  2. "Best-selling author Wendy Holden to talk at new festival in Cromford". Matlock Mercury. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  3. Freeman, Sarah (12 April 2015). "Why Wendy Holden is content to be a supermarket novelist". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  4. Clayton, Emma (20 January 2017). "An IT girl, an English teacher and Cleckheaton Library - author Wendy Holden on the road to bestselling success". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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