Grace Wynne-Jones

Grace Wynne-Jones is the author of four highly intimate soulful novels that have received critical acclaim and an enthusiastic response from many readers. Two of them have got into the bestsellers charts and, as an article in The Sunday Independent said, they are often about ‘older women looking for fulfillment and, yes love, in a complicated world’. She lives in Ireland and has a deep interest in psychology, spirituality and healing and she also loves to celebrate the strangeness and wonders of ordinary life and love. She has frequently been praised for the warm belly-laugh humour and tender observations in her writing and has been described as as a novelist who tells the truth about the human heart.

"One of my biggest pleasures is when a reader says they have felt understood by a novel" she says. "This is often because a character has admitted to feelings they themselves have never been able to share. For example a number of readers of 'Ordinary Miracles' told me they felt I had somehow been spying on their marriages. Jasmine, the main character, has just turned forty and reads books like 'No Need To Panic: Courageous Acts Of Change In Women's Lives'. She discovers that her husband has been having an affair, but long before that she was wondering what had happened to her dreams. She confides in her daughter's teddy and has torrid fantasies about a famous actor. Desperation eventually sends her on a quirky journey of self-discovery and there are tears and epiphanies and adventures and, importantly, laughter. I love writing humour. I like my novels to contain many notes and contrasts, like in music. But as the saying goes, certain chords always reach the heart in the same way.' (The German edition of 'Ordinary Miracles' is 'Rosie oder Die Angst vor der Liebe.')