Victoria Connelly grew up in Norfolk before attending Worcester College where she studied English Literature. After graduating, she worked her way through a number of jobs before becoming a teacher in North Yorkshire.
In 2000, she got married in a medieval castle in the Yorkshire Dales and moved to London. Five weeks after their wedding, her husband, a television news cameraman, was sent to Israel. Convinced something terrible would happen to him, she came up with the idea for a novel about a young widow who starts seeing angels on her desk at work, but was scared to write it in case she tempted fate. It was only years later that her husband admitted to having a bullet graze his shirt sleeve whilst filming in Israel!
Although having had articles and short stories published, it was only when Flights of Angels was published that Victoria was able to realise the dream of becoming a professional writer. Published as Unter deinem Stern in Germany, the novel has just been turned into a film for television by award-winning Ziegler Film. Her second novel, The Unmasking of Elena Montella, was published in 2007 and her third, Three Graces, will be published soon.
She is currently working on a novel about an eccentric collector as well as writing an adventure series for girls.
To find out what Victoria’s favourite books are, click here.
Read some of Victoria’s writing tips,
here.
