Jane was brought up in Wimbledon, but spent most of her adult life in Oxford, and she and her husband now live in Minchinhampton in the Cotswolds, near her sister, the author Katie Fforde.

She has been writing since childhood, and her romantic comedy, A Proper Family Christmas, is currently with Accent Press. Her new novel is set in a crumbling Cotswold manor and its beautiful Dower House - she does have a thing about houses. She is also working on a biography of her grandmother, Florence Garner, the American heiress who married Sir William Gordon-Cumming of the notorious Baccarat Scandal.

Jane is represented by Lisa Eveleigh at the Richford Becklow Agency