Glynis Peters

Glynis Peters is a historical fiction author from Essex in the UK that made her name as the author of the bestselling title “The Secret Orphan.” She has been married for more than four decades and is lucky enough to have married her high school sweetheart with whom she has three children. The first novel she ever wrote was when she was practicing as a nurse and moved from the UK to Cyprus. Peters become hooked to writing and by the time she came back to the UK in 2013, she had five novels to her name. In 2014, she made the shortlist for the New Talent Award by the Festival of Romantic Fiction. Ever since she signed a publishing contract with HarperCollins, she has been classified as a hybrid author having self-published for more than a decade. “The Secret Orphan” which was her first novel with HarperCollins was published in 2018 and is the first book set in the Second World War that she has written. In her self-publishing days, she was a historical fiction author writing as Glynis Smy. During this time, she specialized in the Victorian era and hence when she started working with HarperCollins, she felt she needed to change in her new iteration as a traditionally published author.