Jane Green



 

Jane Green

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born
January 01, 1968

gender
female

place of birth
United Kingdom

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genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

Jane Green (born in 1968 in London, England) is an U.S.-based British author. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, four children under the age of 5 - including a set of twins - and dog Palmer. She attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1987-88, although she left without completing her degree and worked as a journalist throughout her twenties. At the age of 27 she was inspired to write a book about a woman being single in the city. This paid off and she published her first book, Straight Talking three months later.





books by Jane Green

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avg rating: 3.50 | 25849 ratings | 21 distinct works
Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly D... Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.71 — 5807 ratings — published 2004
12 editions
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Mr. Maybe: A Novel Mr. Maybe: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.46 — 3332 ratings — published 2005
18 editions
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Bookends: A Novel Bookends: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.50 — 2928 ratings — published 2003
11 editions
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Babyville: A Novel Babyville: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.40 — 2127 ratings — published 2004
22 editions
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Swapping Lives Swapping Lives (Hardcover)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.37 — 1990 ratings — published 2006
14 editions
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The Other Woman The Other Woman (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.46 — 1794 ratings — published 2006
20 editions
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To Have and To Hold: A Novel To Have and To Hold: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.41 — 1752 ratings — published 2005
12 editions
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Second Chance Second Chance (Hardcover)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.39 — 1650 ratings — published 2007
8 editions
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Straight Talking: A Novel Straight Talking: A Novel (Paperback)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.43 — 1629 ratings — published 2005
7 editions
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The Beach House The Beach House (Hardcover)
by Jane Green
avg rating 3.52 — 898 ratings — published 2008
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event: Jane Green on tour for book "The Beach House"
date: October 28, 2008 12:00PM
location: Inn at Longshore - Westport Rotary, 260 Compo Road South, Westport, CT, United States
description: See Jane Green on tour promoting the book "The Beach House"

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quotes by Jane Green

"On the way back to the office- I get a cab, on expenses, naturally- I decide that I could quite like Ed. Maybe I could even fancy him, and maybe the fact that I'm not thinking about him that much when I'm not with him is a good thing, maybe it means this is a proper relationship, not just lust, or the equivalent to a teenage crush. Because quite frankly I'm sick of falling madly in love and spending twenty-four hours a day thinking about them and crying with misery when they don't phone. I'm sick of being the kind of girl who, when they say jump, says how high. I'm sick of always, always being the one to fall in love and get hurt. And maybe this is how it should be, getting on with my life and not putting all my energies into a relationship."
Jane Green (Mr. Maybe)
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"To be honest, I'm not sure about this whole scared of commitment business. I think it's become too handy, a useful phrase that men can bandy about whenever they feel like being assholes. And sure, I do believe there are some men who are genuinely terrified of commitment, but there aren't that many, and for the most part I think it's that they haven't met the right woman yet. Because if a man, no matter how scared he professed to be, met the woman of his dreams, he wouldn't want to let her go, would he? And sure, he might not want to actually get married, but if he were madly in love and risked losing her, he'd do it, wouldn't he?

That's what I think, anyway."
Jane Green (Mr. Maybe: A Novel)
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"Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways"
Jane Green (Swapping Lives)
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