Jenny Colgan is a Scottish novelist, born in Prestwick, Ayrshire, on 14 September 1971. She studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked for six years in the health service before publishing her first novel, Amanda's Wedding, in 2000. She is best known for warm-hearted comic fiction built around small businesses and island communities, in series such as the Cupcake Café, Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, the Little Beach Street Bakery, the Summer Seaside Kitchen on the island of Mure and the Scottish bookshop of Kirrinfief. She has also written five Doctor Who novels as Jenny T. Colgan. She won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 2013 and the RNA comedy award in 2018.
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Jenny Colgan is a Scottish novelist, born in Prestwick, Ayrshire, on 14 September 1971. She studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked for six years in the health service before publishing her first novel, Amanda's Wedding, in 2000. She is best known for warm-hearted comic fiction built around small businesses and island communities, in series such as the Cupcake Café, Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, the Little Beach Street Bakery, the Summer Seaside Kitchen on the island of Mure and the Scottish bookshop of Kirrinfief. She has also written five Doctor Who novels as Jenny T. Colgan. She won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 2013 and the RNA comedy award in 2018.
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