Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson (born 1971 in London, England ) is a British author.

Life

The London grew Koomson studied at the University of Leeds psychology and journalism. Both fields of study she successfully completed. After that, the African British writer lived for two years in Sydney, where decided to work as a freelance writer and currently resides in Brighton. She wrote for a number of journals and magazines, apart from the now seven novels, she has been published.

At age 13, she was already writing her first novel, There's A Thin Line Between Love And Hate, which was never published. In 2003, she was with The Cupid Effect her debut novel. Her third novel, My Best Friend's Girl ( 2006) was on the shortlist of Richard and Judy 's Summer Reads and was subsequently a great sales success, when the work already with 90,000 copies sold in the first two weeks.

As their favorite author they called themselves the science fiction author JG Ballard, as referred to at all the kind of writing of other authors of this genre, especially Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett as influential for themselves. Of the modern writers of their own territory they prefer Jane Green, Marian Keyes, Sarah Ball, Madelaine Wickham and many of Andrea Semple. In addition, as a great model Jane Austen and the male authors are Mark Barrow Cliffe and Nick Hornby with her in the foreground. Oprah Winfrey have inspired them, which ultimately abandon unpopular work as a journalist in Australia and work as a freelance writer.

Her works, which she usually writes on the laptop in bed or on the sofa, she referred to herself as "emotional thriller ", ie emotional thriller.

Work

• The Cupid Effect ( 2003)
• The Chocolate Run ( 2004)
• My Best Friend's Girl. 2006 German From now on forever. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-548-28055-4
• Marshmallows For Breakfast. 2007 German morning begins at the sky. Diana, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-453-35567-5
• Goodnight, Beautiful (2008)
• The Ice Cream Girls ( 2010)
• The Woman He Loved Before ( 2011)