Penny Jordan

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born

November 24, 1946 in Lancashire, The United Kingdom

died

December 31, 2011

gender

female

website

http://www.penny-jordan.co.uk/

genre

Romance

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Her other name: [Author: Caroline Courtney], [Author: Annie Groves], [Author: Lydia Hitchcock], [Author: Melinda Wright]

Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".

She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialised bedtime stories, featuring make-bel...more Her other name: [Author: Caroline Courtney], [Author: Annie Groves], [Author: Lydia Hitchcock], [Author: Melinda Wright]

Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru".

She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialised bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan, and was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale, in shops and she could have them for keeps.

Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her late husband bought her out of his own money at a time when he could ill afford it the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels. Her husband died at the beginning of 21th century.

She has earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for threebair-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her present historical romance novels, she has adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70m of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide.

Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.

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Average rating: 3.21 · 5,193 ratings · 455 reviews · 285 distinct works

	The Italian Duke's Wife (By Royal Command) (Harlequin Presents #2529) 3.62 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Demetrios Virgin (Greek Tycoons) (Harlequin Presents, 2169) 3.48 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Mission: Makeover 3.23 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Sheikh's Virgin Bride (Sheikh's Arabian Nights #1) (Harlequin Presents # 2325) 3.48 avg rating — 79 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	An Unforgettable Man - Lelaki Dalam Ingatan 3.30 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Possessed by the Sheikh (Sheikh's Arabian Nights #3)(Harlequin Presents # 2457) 3.51 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Future King's Pregnant Mistress 3.49 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Bedding His Virgin Mistress 3.54 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Blackmail Baby (Wedlocked!) (Harlequin Presents, 2247) 3.52 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Best Man To Wed? (The Bride's Bouquet) (Harlequin Presents, No 1889) 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:

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Sheikh's Arabian Night (8 books)
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3.04 avg rating — 216 ratings

Leopardi Brothers (3 books)
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3.37 avg rating — 134 ratings

The Santina Crown (1 book)
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2.90 avg rating — 144 ratings

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Quotes by Penny Jordan

“Only the weak blame their past for the faults they find in their present; the strong acknowledge the effects of their past and then move on from it. We are all free to choose whether we will be weak or strong.”
― Penny Jordan, The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress

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