Jean is the author of seventeen novels all set in East London where she was born. She also a retired district nurse and university lecturer.
She has published one East London series with Orion featuring pre-NHS district nurses in the post-war years and the introduction of the NHS. She has published a further two series with Atlantic Publishing. One set in the 19th century and her current series features the Brogan family during the dark days of WW2.
She is also a regular writing workshop leader at the Romantic Novelist Association and the Historical Novel Society conferences as well as being the Romantic Novelist Association’s Educational Lead. In addition Jean had undertaken hundreds of speaker’s engagements and workshops with WIs, U3As and on cruise ships.