Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning, New York Times, USA Today, Irish Times and international bestselling author. Her 2014 debut novel The Girl Who Came Home—A Novel of the Titanic won the 2015 Romantic Novelists’ Association Historical Novel of the Year, A Memory of Violets, was a 2015 WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, The Girl from The Savoy was shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Book Awards, and The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter was shortlisted for the 2019 Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award.
Last Christmas in Paris (co-written with Heather Webb) won the 2018 Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Their second collaboration, Meet Me In Monaco, is shortlisted for the 2020 Romantic Novelists’ Association Historical Novel of the Year.
Hazel’s new historical novel, set in China during WW2, will be published under the title THE BIRD IN THE BAMBOO CAGE, in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in August 2020. The book will be published under the title WE WILL BE BRAVE in the USA and Canada in October 2020. The book is available to pre-order now.
Hazel was selected by Library Journal as one of Ten Big Breakout Authors for 2015 and her work has been translated into fourteen languages to date. She is also co-founder of creative writing events The Inspiration Project Originally from Yorkshire, England, Hazel now lives in Ireland with her husband and two children. She is represented by Michelle Brower of Aevitas Creative Management, New York.