Rosie Thomas
Personal Information
Description
Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Published since 1982 as Rosie Thomas, she has written fourteen best-selling novels, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 1985 with Sunrise, and in 2007 with Iris and Ruby. Janey is an adventurer and once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She currently lives in London.
Books
Border Crossing
When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller - when Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions - questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly, Tom is drawn back into Danny's world - a place where the border between good and evil, innocence and guilt is blurred and confused. But when Danny's demands on Tom become extreme, Tom wonders whether he has crossed a line of his own - and in crossing it, can he ever go back?
White
A woman of our times
The story of a woman whose passion to succeed in business and at love bring difficult choices and unforeseen consequences.
The white dove
"This collection of poetry celebrates the life of the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino, who arrived in New Spain in 1681 and who founded the San Xavier del Bac Mission near Tucson. The poet tells Father Kino’s story from his own perspective from his beginnings in Italy (1645) until his death in 1711. The collection is a bilingual edition with facing-page Spanish translation of the original English poems."--Publisher's website.
Sunrise
As their wedding day nears, Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are determined to keep their ceremony a secret from the paparazzi, while a terrible tragedy strikes the Flanigan family as Cody fights for his life after an alcohol overdose.
Strangers
Buried in the rubble after a bomb explodes in a department store, Annie is injured and half dead with fear. Then a man trapped beside her reaches out with a quiet voice and soothing hand. The tragedy has brought them together and they begin a struggle for survival.