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Jane Green

Jane Green
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Jane studied Classic Culinary Arts at the French Culinary Insitute in New York City.  

Jane Green
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Fig and Camembert Tarts

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Jane Green is the author of many bestselling novels. A former feature writer for the Daily Express in the UK, Green took a leap in faith when she left, in 1996, to freelance and work on a novel. Seven months later, there was a bidding war for her first book, Straight Talking, the saga of a single career girl looking for the right man. The novel was an immediate top-ten bestseller in England, and Green was an overnight success.

Now in her forties, Green has graduated to more complex, character-driven novels that explore the concerns of real women's lives, from marriage (The Other Woman) to motherhood (Another Piece of My Heart) to divorce, stepchildren, affairs, and most recently, midlife crises (Family Pictures and Tempting Fate).

Jane's new novel, Saving Grace, will be released in December 2014, and her e-cookbook Happy Food is a free gift with preorder. 

She joined the ABC News team to write A Modern Fairytale - their first enhanced digital book - about the history of Royal marriages, then joined ABC News Radio as a live correspondent covering Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton. She has written a micro-series for Dove starring Alicia Keyes, many short stories, and has contributed to various anthologies, as well as regularly appearing on television shows including Good Morning America, The Martha Stewart show, and The Today Show.

Together with writing books and blogs, she contributes to various publications, both online and print, including Huffington Post, The Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan and Self, has taught at writers conferences, and does regular keynote speaking.

A foodie and passionate cook, Green filled one of her books, Promises to Keep, with recipes from her own collection. She says she only cooks food that is "incredibly easy, but has to look as if you have slaved over a hot stove for hours." This is because she has six children, and has realised that "when you have six children, nobody ever invites you anywhere."

Originally from London, she now lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband, children, and a menagerie of animals. Visit her Most weekends see her cooking for a minimum of twenty people in her home. When she is not writing, cooking, gardening, filling her house with friends and herding chickens, she is usually thanking the Lord for caffeine-filled energy drinks. Stay up to date with Jane by visiting her Facebook page.

Latest Recipes

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Fig and Camembert Tarts

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