Phillipa Ashley is a Sunday Times and Amazon best-selling author of uplifting romantic fiction. After studying English at Oxford University, she worked as a copywriter and journalist before writing her debut novel, Decent Exposure. It won the Romantic Novelists Association New Writers Award and was filmed as a Lifetime TV movie, 12 Men of Christmas, starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins. Since then, Phillipa's novels have sold well over a million copies and been translated into numerous languages. She is also an Audible number 1 best-seller. Phillipa lives in an English village with her husband, has a grown-up daughter and loves nothing better than walking the Lake District hills and swimming in Cornish coves.