Christina Hollis

Best-selling author Christina Hollis was born in Somerset, England. The Careers department at school suggested nursing or teaching, but all she wanted to do was write. Escaping from school as soon as she could, she worked first in the financial sector and then in the technical library of Rolls-Royce Aero. After moving to rural Gloucestershire, she began writing full time. Her first novel, 'Knight's Pawn', was published by Harlequin Mills and Boon under the pen name Polly Forrester. After a career break to raise a family, Christina joined the award-winning poet Paul Groves' creative writing course. She began writing short stories, and contemporary romance for Mills and Boon Modern Romance.

Christina has sold nearly three million books. Her full-length work has been translated into twenty different languages. and her short fiction regularly appears in magazines such as The People's Friend.

'I write to capture the countryside in all its moods,' she says. 'Reading can take you to a completely different place and time. That's my idea of luxury–the chance to escape from the stress of everyday life.'