Jacqui Rose

Jacqui Rose is a British author of gangland crime thriller novels. Jacqui grew up in an isolated mining village in South Yorkshire. She first came to appreciate writing when as she would write essays for other kids in her class for packets of sherbet dips. When she was a teenager, Jacqui also realized she loved acting and making people laugh, but was expelled and ended up homeless in London briefly. She taught drama and writing workshops for prisoners, ex-cons and the homeless on a volunteer basis. Jacqui got the idea for her first novel,Taken, from an abusive relationship she was in. She considers writing to be her salvation and her freedom.