ABOUT J M BRISCOE

J. M. (Jenny) Briscoe wrote her first novel at the age of twelve, back when computers were enormous and connecting to the internet meant losing the phone line. The story – an extravagantly dramatic saga about twins named Sapphire and Samuel – was far from a masterpiece, but it sparked a lifelong love of storytelling.

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That passion led Jenny to study English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. After graduating, she worked as a journalist across newspapers, radio, TV, and online media before completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Cardiff University.

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In 2016, after moving into freelance journalism to balance writing with family life, Jenny’s first YA novel The Thing About Amelia was long-listed for the Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition. A few years later, while pregnant with her third child, she began writing The Girl with the Green Eyes – the first book in her dark, soft sci-fi trilogy Take Her Back.

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The novel was long-listed for the 2020 Bridport Prize First Novel Award (top 20 of more than 1,600 entries) and published by Bad Press Ink in 2021, later reaching the top ten of an Amazon bestseller list. It was followed by The Child Left in the Dark (2022) and The Voice that Twists the Knife (2024), completing the trilogy.

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Jenny now lives in Berkshire with her husband, three children, and two somewhat indifferent cats. She works as a Content Editor for Mumsnet and is currently writing a new YA sci-fi series – with plans for a potential Take Her Back follow-up on the horizon.