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Hello!
Welcome to the official website of Kristen Bailey, author. Here you'll find details about me, my writing and my novels. Please follow me on social media to learn more about my misadventures in writing and motherhood (warning: it's a bit sweary....sorry!) and always feel free to get in touch - I'd love to hear from you. For now, happy reading and thanks for your support.
Are you in desperate need of a glow job?
Chloe needs a holiday. She’s invisible to her boss, overworked and burnt out. What she gets is a chaotic wellness retreat at a sun-drenched Ibizan villa, run by a man whose resemblance to Pedro Pascal and sublime cooking make up for seeming a bit out of his depth.
Ben has taken a sabbatical from his London restaurant, and is trying to turn his late uncle’s rundown, rustic villa into a fully-functioning retreat. He can wing the catering and count on the sunshine, but he hasn’t planned on Chloe: clumsy, brilliant, and so overworked and underappreciated it’s quietly heartbreaking.
As the week unfolds – complete with feral goats, beach raves, skinny-dipping and wedding-crashing – both of them begin to feel a glow that neither of them saw coming.
But real life is waiting for them both back in London. And real feelings are a lot harder to pack up than a suitcase.
Warm, fizzing with Kristen Bailey’s signature humour and full of genuine heart, Glow Job is the summer rom-com you’ll never want to end, but will devour in one sitting.
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It's Christmas, Steve
Very happy to tell you that my new Christmas book is now available to buy and download on Kindle Unlimited. Also available in paperback & audio.
Phoebe has twenty-four hours to deliver a rescue puppy to her sister’s family in Devon for Christmas morning. She has enthusiasm, a pink woolly hat, and a heart full of good intentions. What she does not have is a working car.
Her sister’s housesitter does. Joshua is a university mathematician who came to England to do serious academic work. And, if he’s honest, to put an ocean between himself and a heartbreak he hasn’t quite dealt with. He has an orange VW Beetle, a neatly labelled travel bin, and absolutely no desire to spend Christmas Eve in a blizzard with a stranger and her howling dog.
But Phoebe is very persuasive, and Steve the dog has already peed in the hallway.
What follows is gridlocked motorways, a dog who sees a car journey as trauma, and awkward conversation. Phoebe and Joshua have absolutely nothing in common. Until, after an impromptu snowball fight, a near-miss for Steve at Stonehenge, and a night snowed in together in a firelit shepherd’s hut, the frost between them begins to melt…
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Kristen's first books were published in 2016. Most readers found her through the Callaghan Series which follows Meg, Emma, Beth, Grace & Lucy as they navigate their way through life, love, parenthood, sex and relationships. She's not sure if they belong to a genre but she'd put them in women's-romantic-comedy-family fiction with a fair few knob jokes. Each book in the series follows the adventures of a different sister but all can be read as standalone novels. The first of the series, Has Anyone Seen My Sex Life? spent 4 weeks in the Most Sold Fiction Charts in Amazon UK and was a Top 10 Kindle Bestseller. All five books have over 12K reviews on Amazon UK. All available on e-book, paperback and audio. More recently, she's been dipping her toe in the world of the romcom. It's going OK. Great Sexpectations was nominated at the 2023 RNAs. She's even started writing Christmas books even though her husband hates Christmas. Click on each book to take you to Amazon UK and learn more.