Author

Dinah Jefferies

19 books, mostly historical fiction, for HarperCollins and Penguin, 2015–2027

Dinah Jefferies is a British novelist born in Malaysia who began writing novels in her sixties. Her internationally bestselling historical fiction often draws on her childhood in Southeast Asia and explores love, loss, family secrets, and danger against richly evoked locations. Her second novel, The Tea Planter’s Wife, became a number-one Sunday Times bestseller, and her books have been published in more than 30 languages.