Wendy Holden
Wendy Holden, also known as Taylor Holden, is an author and journalist who has written more than twenty-five books, nine of them international bestsellers. She was born in Pinner, North London, in 1961 [1] and now lives in Suffolk, England.
Publications
(she is to be distinguished from Wendy Holden (b.1965) , a writer of light fiction.[2] )
Ghost-written autobiographies
- Lady Blue Eyes, 2011, a memoir of Frank Sinatra’s widow Barbara, a New York Times bestseller,[3]
- Till the Sun Grows Cold, a mother’s account of her daughter’s life and death in war-torn Sudan,
- Heaven and Hell, the memoir of Don Felder, former lead guitarist with The Eagles.
- Kill Switch, an account of a former British soldier wrongly jailed in Afghanistan.
- Central 822, her autobiography of one of Scotland Yard’s first ever female detectives, was serialised globally on BBC Radio.
Other books
- Ten Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children and Ourselves the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happier Lives with Goldie Hawn is published September 2011.
- Shell Shock: The Psychological Trauma of War, which accompanied a four-part television documentary, and the novelisation of the film The Full Monty, which became an international bestseller in nine languages and was published as a classroom aide.
- Footprints in the Snow, the story of a courageous paraplegic, was made into a television film starring Caroline Quentin and Kevin Whately.
- Her first book, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge about the controversial Irish abortion case, was banned across Ireland.
- Her first novel The Sense of Paper, about a former war correspondent running from the ghosts of her past, was published by Random House, New York in 2006.
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