Susan Lewis

Susan Lewis is a British novelist born in Bristol, England, in 1956. Educated at the Red Maids' School, she worked in secretarial roles and later in television production, including stints at HTV Bristol and Thames Television in London, before turning to fiction with her 1988 debut novel, A Class Apart. She went on to live in France, California and on the French Riviera before returning to settle in Gloucestershire, England, in 2010.

Across a career now spanning more than fifty novels, Lewis has become one of Britain's most prolific and consistent bestselling authors, writing largely standalone family dramas and psychological thrillers centred on secrets, betrayal and family under pressure, many set in her recurring fictional West Country town of Kesterly-on-Sea. Alongside her standalone fiction she has written four series: the journalist-and-barrister thriller pairing of Laurie Forbes and Elliott Russell; the No Child of Mine trilogy, researched directly with social workers and family court professionals; the Andee Lawrence crime series, following a former detective turned private investigator; and, from 2024, the Cristy Ward thriller series.

She has also published two memoirs, Just One More Day (2005) and One Day at a Time (2011), drawing on her own working-class childhood in 1960s Bristol. Lewis continues to publish regularly and remains one of the UK's leading writers of commercial family and crime fiction.