Veronica Henry

Veronica Henry (born 1963) is a Sunday Times bestselling British novelist, TV script writer and journalist. She has sold over 2.5 million copies of her books worldwide in 25 languages and 30 territories.

In 2014, her novel A Night on the Orient Express won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Veronica Henry was educated at the Royal High School, Bath then went on to the University of Bristol to study Latin.

From there she went to the BBC to work as Production Secretary on The Archers. Her duties ranged from organising Shula Archer's wedding photographs with Patrick Lichfield to playing the part of Peaches the barmaid in the Cat and Fiddle. She also wrote scripts for the programme.

She then went to Central Television to script-edit Crossroads and Boon. She left to have her first child in 1990, and became a scriptwriter. Her credits include Boon, Heartbeat, Doctors, Family Affairs and Holby.

In 2000 she turned to writing novels, and in 2002, her first book, Honeycote, was published by Penguin Books (UK). Her other publishers include Orion Books (UK) and Random House (US). She has published over 20 bestselling novels.

On 17 March 2014, A Night on the Orient Express won Romantic Novel of the Year, and her award was presented by Darcey Bussell .

She was a guest on episode 3 of season 3 of the house-hunting show Fantasy Homes by the Sea hosted by Jenni Falconer.

She has three grown up sons and lives on the coast in North Devon.