Siobhan Murphy

Siobhan Murphy is a writer and photographer based in the UK. She writes (and reads) both light-hearted romantic comedies and contemporary women’s fiction/Bookclub fiction.

Her writing hours are sponsored by Earl Grey tea, dark chocolate and occasionally wine. When she is not writing, reading or working in her photography day job, her hobbies include eating haribo sweets, talking nonsense and walking into rooms wondering why she is there.

She loves to travel, laugh at the absurdity of life and enjoy a glass of wine with good friends. She loves a good TV binge session, especially shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Virgin River, Emily in Paris or This is Us. Current favourite is Slow Horses. With both books and film she's an emotional wreck who often runs out of tissues. When she was a child her father had to reassure her constantly reassure that programmes on TV weren’t real. Since becoming an author she can now legitimately class her habit of binge-watching RomCom films as ‘research.’

Siobhan loves to escape into books and live in other worlds. Like most writers, she has been an avid reader from the second she hurtled into the world (well perhaps a little bit after that). Over the years she's drifted around the world in search of adventure, hoping to figure out what to do with her life. She is not sure if she has the answer yet, but writing certainly comes close. Though she suspect her long-suffering family and her liver might not agree.

Impulsive and easily bored, she's turned her hand to many jobs over the years, working in places as diverse as the High Commission in Nairobi; a market stall selling cheese in the UK and an 80ft racing yacht in Australia. She's been a secondary school English teacher and a Barista with no discernible talent for making coffee. She's done admin work for a number of businesses, but discovered that offices aren’t really for her. Her favourite job was as a bookseller for Waterstones, where she loved recommending books to customers and applying those 3 for 2 stickers that people find so hard to remove. For the last 19 years she's been a professional photographer, taking portraits of humans – often the really, really small ones.