Dorothy Koomson

A Story of Black History

DOROTHY KOOMSON

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Dorothy Koomson is a contemporary English novelist of Ghanaian descent. Books and reading have been a huge part of her life since she was very young. Koomson was just 13 when she wrote her first novel, the unpublished There’s A Thin Line Between Love And Hate and, in 2003, her debut novel, The Cupid Effect, was published. She has written for a number of women’s magazines and newspapers, as well as having had seven successful novels published. In 2006, her third novel, My Best Friend’s Girl, was published. It was incredibly successful – selling nearly 90,000 copies within its first few weeks. Six weeks later, it was selected for the Richard & Judy Summer Reads Book Club and the book went on to sell over 500,000 copies. Because of its huge sales, it won an award. Her fourth novel, Marshmallows for Breakfast, also won an award for selling over 250,000 copies.

In 2005, Dorothy moved to Australia, but, when she returned to England in 2007, she moved to the south coast, namely Brighton. She loves living by the sea: ‘There’s nothing like a good walk along the seafront to clear your head or to work out the knots in a plot.’