Sue Mackender

Sue Mackender sold her successful recruitment business after 29 years to pursue her lifelong passion for books and embark on a new career as a writer.

She is often termed as a Grit-Lit writer of Commercial Fiction, which includes: Crime, Psychological Suspense, with a smattering of Romance. She places her heroines in impossible situations where they must fight for their corner to survive.

The Girl on the Hill and The Woman I've Become are a duo from the Chartley Girls series, with book three, The Unexpected Mother, is expected to surface in 2026.

Her first two novels, Accident of Fate and Accident of Birth, have been firm favourites with Book Club readers.

She has also been published in America in the Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies.

In 2019, Sue was awarded the coveted Katie Fforde bursary.

She lives with her husband in Surrey, United Kingdom.