PHILLIPA ASHLEY is a Sunday Times, Amazon and Audible best-selling author of uplifting romantic fiction. After studying English at Oxford University, she worked as a copywriter and journalist before turning her hand to writing.Her debut novel, Decent Exposure, won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers Award and was filmed as a Lifetime TV movie, 12 Men of Christmas, starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins.Since then, her novels have sold well over a million copies and been translated into numerous languages.Phillipa lives in an English village with her husband, has a grown-up daughter and loves nothing better than walking the Lake District hills and swimming in Cornish coves.

PRAISE FOR THE LITTLE CORNISH ISLES SERIES: ‘Scandals and secrets in the Scillies – sheer joy!’ KATIE FFORDE PRAISE FOR PHILLIPA ASHLEY: ‘Filled with warm and likeable characters. Great fun!’ JILL MANSELL‘A delicious festive treat with as many twists and turns as a Cornish country lane’ JULES WAKE‘Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read’ KATIE FFORDE‘An utterly glorious, escapist read from a one of the freshest voices to emerge in women's fiction today. I loved every gorgeous page’ CLAUDIA CARROLL‘Made me want to run away to the Cornish coast immediately! Loved it!’ LORELEI MATHIAS ‘Ashley's writing is deft, sexy, and full of humour’ TRASHIONISTA.COM ‘Readers will enjoy the breezy style and repartee’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (US) ‘Sexy, funny and wonderfully romantic’ SINGLETITLES.COM‘A deliciously entertaining twist on the Poldark tale’ LIZ FENWICK

PHILLIPA ASHLEY is a Sunday Times, Amazon and Audible best-selling author of uplifting romantic fiction. After studying English at Oxford University, she worked as a copywriter and journalist before turning her hand to writing.Her debut novel, Decent Exposure, won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers Award and was filmed as a Lifetime TV movie, 12 Men of Christmas, starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins.Since then, her novels have sold well over a million copies and been translated into numerous languages.Phillipa lives in an English village with her husband, has a grown-up daughter and loves nothing better than walking the Lake District hills and swimming in Cornish coves.

PRAISE FOR THE LITTLE CORNISH ISLES SERIES: ‘Scandals and secrets in the Scillies – sheer joy!’ KATIE FFORDE PRAISE FOR PHILLIPA ASHLEY: ‘Filled with warm and likeable characters. Great fun!’ JILL MANSELL‘A delicious festive treat with as many twists and turns as a Cornish country lane’ JULES WAKE‘Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read’ KATIE FFORDE‘An utterly glorious, escapist read from a one of the freshest voices to emerge in women's fiction today. I loved every gorgeous page’ CLAUDIA CARROLL‘Made me want to run away to the Cornish coast immediately! Loved it!’ LORELEI MATHIAS ‘Ashley's writing is deft, sexy, and full of humour’ TRASHIONISTA.COM ‘Readers will enjoy the breezy style and repartee’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (US) ‘Sexy, funny and wonderfully romantic’ SINGLETITLES.COM‘A deliciously entertaining twist on the Poldark tale’ LIZ FENWICK