Susan Lewis (writer)
British writer
Susan Lewis (born 10 August 1956) is a British author living in the west of England who has written 50 novels as well as an autobiographical memoir – Just One More Day (2006) with a follow-up memoir One Day at a Time to be published November 2011. Her novels were nominated for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year award in 2002 and 2005.
Career
Lewis was educated at The Red Maids' School in Bristol, England. After several temporary secretarial jobs she worked at the television network HTV in Bristol, then moved to London to join Thames Television to work in news, current affairs, light entertainment and drama. She knocked on the Controller's door to ask what it takes to be a success. He told her: "Oh, go away and write something". Her first novel, A Class Apart was published in 1988. She has since published a further 27 novels.
Three years after her first book was published Lewis moved to France., followed by a move to California in 1996, then to the French Riviera in 2004. During this time she met her partner, James.
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