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Rosy Thornton writes contemporary women’s fiction across a broad spectrum, from romantic comedy, through social satire to more reflective work exploring women’s lives and aspirations.

She studied Law at the University of Cambridge, before staying on as a lecturer and a Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel College. Her academic interests include landlord and tenant law and trusts, on which she has written and published, and she teaches a course in Women and the Law. Her sideline in writing fiction comes as a welcome relief after academic writing – and all those endless footnotes!

Married with two daughters, Rosy lives in a village near Cambridge where she enjoys long walks with her two spaniels, and from where she returns fortnightly to her native Ipswich to follow the flagging fortunes of Ipswich Town FC. 

Rosy joined the RNA in 2009.