about me

I'm a former journalist and PR who now writes novels under two different names.

Lorna Cook is my historical fiction name where I write novels filled with romance, intrigue, secrets and history and under the name Elle Cook I write contemporary romance / women’s fiction. I live in coastal Essex with my husband and our two daughters. When I'm not making up stories and characters, I can usually be found with a glass of wine in one hand and a good book in the other. It makes it tricky to turn the pages. My favourite authors are Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley, Liz Fenwick, Jenny Ashcroft, Iona Grey and Holly Miller. I will even put the wine down to read anything by these fantastic writers. 

My debut novel The Forgotten Village sold over 150,000 copies and was a Kindle Number 1 bestseller for over a fortnight. It spent four months in the Kindle Top 100, has eleven overseas/foreign language editions, won the Romantic Novelists' Association Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers.  Follow me on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter for bookish ramblings.