Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail, and Irish Times bestselling historical novelist. Her debut THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME was awarded the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year, and her novels have since been shortlisted for the 2016 and 2020 Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year, the 2019 Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award, and the 2021 Grand Prix du Roman Historique. Her last novel, THE BIRD IN THE BAMBOO CAGE (published in the USA as WHEN WE WERE YOUNG & BRAVE) was a Heatseeker and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller. Her new novel, THE LAST LIFEBOAT, will be published in June 2023.

Hazel’s co-written novels with Heather Webb have all been published to critical acclaim. Last Christmas in Paris won the 2018 Women’s Fiction Writers Association Star Award, and Meet Me in Monaco was shortlisted for the 2020 Romantic Novelists’ Association Historical Novel award. Their latest novel, Three Words for Goodbye, was selected by Prima Magazine as a Best Novel of 2021. Their next novel, Christmas With The Queen, will be published in 2024.

Hazel is published in twenty-seven territories and her books have been translated into twenty languages. Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in Ireland with her family. To keep up-to-date with Hazel’s work, please visit her website or follow her on social media where you will often find her professionally procrastinating.