Best-selling author of My Best Friend's Girl, The Ice Cream Girls and The Brighton Mermaid
Best-selling author of My Best Friend's Girl, The Ice Cream Girls and The Brighton Mermaid
Hello and welcome to my website! My name is Dorothy and I’m an award-winning novelist. I’m lots of other things, too, but I’m guessing you’re here for the book-related stuff. Feel free to have a look around. I hope you like what you see. And do get in touch – I love to hear from you.
The blurb says . . . I can’t imagine Mum’s face when I tell her. When I start to explain what I’ve done . . . and why I had to do it. My phone starts to flash with a silent incoming call. The S.O.S I was desperate for. ‘What’s happened?’ he asks. I tho …
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I recently filmed a series of short videos to give you a little insight into TELL ME YOUR SECRET. It’s all about the book’s characters, settings and my writing process. This is the first episode where I talk about the storyline. Enjoy!
The blurb says . . . Pieta has a secret Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn’t kill her if she kept her eyes closed for 48 hours. She never told anyone what happened to her, vowing to move on wi …
The blurb says . . . Her murder was only the beginning… Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, …
Read this guest post by Sharon Wright about her book, The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick I wrote the book that could never be written. Writing it took over my whole life for a long while but The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patr …
Headline launches open casting call for the new Dorothy Koomson audiobook to bring more black voices to audiobook narration . . . Headline and Dorothy Koomson have launched an open casting call to find a new narrator for the audio edition of Dorothy Ko …
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