Borned Janey Morris on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom. She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She worked as a journalist and in publishing before writing full time.Published since 1982, her numerous novels, several of them top ten bestsellers, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by her novel Sunrise in 1985 and in 2007 by her novel Iris and Ruby. She is a keen traveller and mountaineer. She has also competed in the Peking to Paris car rally. She currently living in London.