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Dinah Mary Jefferies (born 1948) is a British novelist, and a short-story and article writer.[1]

Biography

Dinah Jefferies was born in Malacca, Malaya in 1948 and moved to England in 1956 at age eight after the country became independent.[2] She studied at the Birmingham College of Art and later at the University of Ulster, where she graduated in English literature.

When her son Jamie was fourteen he was killed in an accident at school and the experience went to underpinning the emotional power of her writings including her debut 2013 work The Separation.[2][3]

Her 2015 novel, The Tea Planter's Wife , was a choice for the Richard and Judy Book Club.[4] and was in the Sunday Times best sellers list for 16 weeks continuously from September until Christmas 2015, topping it twice during that time.[5] Her next novel in 2016 novel, The Silk Merchant's Daughter, also entered the Sunday Times top 10. She has been a bestseller in Italy with both The Tea Planter's Wife and her 2017 book Before the Rains. The Sapphire Widow was published in April 2018. It too was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick for Summer 2018 and it also entered The Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers list within 3 days of publication, staying there for three weeks. Her next book, The Missing Sister, was published in March 2019, though the eBook and Audio books were published a few weeks earlier. The eBook reached no 1 on the Amazon Kindle charts and the paperback entered the UK top 10 best sellers at no 8 after just three days of sales. She reached 13 in the Italian charts with that book. Having mainly based her books in South/South-East Asia, her 2020 book, The Tuscan Contessa, is set in Tuscany, Italy, during WW2. It is published in Italy and in the UK in July 2020.[6] Her books have been published in nearly 30 different languages.[7]

Bibliography

Short stories

  • "The Scent of Roses" (May 2014, published in The Sunday Express "S" magazine)
  • "The Shadow in the Wind" (Sept 2015, published in The Sunday Express "S" magazine)

References

  1. ^ "Cheltenham Literature Festival: Dinah Jefferies on Telling Truths and The Separation". Gloucestershire Echo. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b Jarvis, Katie. "The separation of Dinah Jefferies". Cotswold Life. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  3. ^ Yong, Michael. "Cheltenham author Dinah Jefferies rebounds with first novel The Separation after loss of son". Gloucestershire Echo. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Richard and Judy Book Club". Richard and Judy.
  5. ^ "Sunday Times – Culture section".
  6. ^ https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/78367/dinah-jefferies.html
  7. ^ http://www.dinahjefferies.com/books/worldwide/
  8. ^ Chan, Tessa. "Book review: The Separation, by Dinah Jefferies". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  9. ^ Norfolk, Pam. "Book review: The Separation by Dinah Jefferies". Lancanshire Evening Post. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Historical fiction round-up:". The Independent.
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