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Hello!
Welcome to the official website of Kristen Bailey, author. Here you'll find details about me, my writing and my novels. Please follow me on social media to learn more about my misadventures in writing and motherhood (warning: it's a bit sweary....sorry!) and always feel free to get in touch - I'd love to hear from you. For now, happy reading and thanks for your support.
Are you in desperate need of a glow job?
Chloe needs a holiday. She’s invisible to her boss, overworked and burnt out. What she gets is a chaotic wellness retreat at a sun-drenched Ibizan villa, run by a man whose resemblance to Pedro Pascal and sublime cooking make up for seeming a bit out of his depth.
Ben has taken a sabbatical from his London restaurant, and is trying to turn his late uncle’s rundown, rustic villa into a fully-functioning retreat. He can wing the catering and count on the sunshine, but he hasn’t planned on Chloe: clumsy, brilliant, and so overworked and underappreciated it’s quietly heartbreaking.
As the week unfolds – complete with feral goats, beach raves, skinny-dipping and wedding-crashing – both of them begin to feel a glow that neither of them saw coming.
But real life is waiting for them both back in London. And real feelings are a lot harder to pack up than a suitcase.
Warm, fizzing with Kristen Bailey’s signature humour and full of genuine heart, Glow Job is the summer rom-com you’ll never want to end, but will devour in one sitting.
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Nick is here
Very happy to tell you that my new Christmas book is now available to buy and download on Kindle Unlimited. Also available in paperback & audio.
One woman, two Nicks, and a Christmas season that’s about to get very complicated.
When librarian Kay bumps into her ex-boyfriend Nick at a Christmas market, she thinks fate is finally giving her a second chance with her first big love. But then she gets spectacularly tangled in a Christmas tree-netting machine and meets another Nick entirely. One who cuts her free, dresses her wounds, and makes her pulse race in ways that thoroughly confuse her.
Finance Nick is successful, settled, and ready to talk five-year plans. Farmer Nick makes handcrafted furniture, supports local charities, and sees the creative spirit Kay has kept hidden behind her library desk. But how is a girl to choose?
Soon she’s spending her days delivering books to children’s hospitals and care homes with farmer Nick, before dashing home to whip off her reindeer onesie and glam up for romantic dates at the ballet with finance Nick.
But the countdown to Christmas is on, and Kay can’t keep this up forever. Somehow she must navigate London’s most complicated love triangle, avoid getting any more pine needles stuck in her hair – and work out once and for all which Nick has her heart.
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Kristen's first books were published in 2016. Most readers found her through the Callaghan Series which follows Meg, Emma, Beth, Grace & Lucy as they navigate their way through life, love, parenthood, sex and relationships. She's not sure if they belong to a genre but she'd put them in women's-romantic-comedy-family fiction with a fair few knob jokes. Each book in the series follows the adventures of a different sister but all can be read as standalone novels. The first of the series, Has Anyone Seen My Sex Life? spent 4 weeks in the Most Sold Fiction Charts in Amazon UK and was a Top 10 Kindle Bestseller. All five books have over 12K reviews on Amazon UK. All available on e-book, paperback and audio. More recently, she's been dipping her toe in the world of the romcom. It's going OK. Great Sexpectations was nominated at the 2023 RNAs. She's even started writing Christmas books even though her husband hates Christmas. Click on each book to take you to Amazon UK and learn more.