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Sue Cook
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: For more than twenty years, Sue Cook has been one of the UK's most experienced and popular broadcasters. She is now also a full-time novelist and writer.
TV viewers know her for shows such as Nationwide, BBC Breakfast, Crimewatch, the annual Children in Need appeal, Holiday and Collectors' Lot. To radio listeners she's been a familiar voice for more than three decades presenting series such as You and Yours and Making History.
Sue wrote three non-fiction books during this time, but it wasn't until 2001 that she created the time to make a start on her first novel, fulfilling a lifelong ambition to be a novelist.
To date she has had two novels published and is working on her third. She is also working on a screenplay of her first novel, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, with her husband, film director Ian Sharp. They live in London and Oxfordshire.
FORCE OF NATURE
Fiction, 352 pgs
Headline, March 2009
It's devastating enough when Pru's husband confesses to a long term affair on their 20th wedding anniversary. Then when her daughter, Molly, announces she's leaving for Vietnam on a Gap Year project, Pru knows her comfortable family life is over for good. Just as she's picking up the pieces, an email brings news that Molly has become involved with political activists and could be in serious danger. Arriving in this beautiful but alien land, Pru embarks on a desperate search for her recalcitrant daughter and meets Ben, a veteran of the US war. He's intelligent, funny, handsome, but damaged. Together they tackle corrupt police, greedy property dealers and a ruthless local party cadre; and when eventually Pru finds her daughter, she also discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.
ON DANGEROUS GROUND
Fiction, 352 pages
Headline Review, November 2006
It's devastating enough when Pru's husband confesses to a long term affair on their 20th wedding anniversary. Then when her daughter, Molly, announces she's leaving for Vietnam on a Gap Year project, Pru knows her comfortable family life is over for good. Just as she's picking up the pieces, an email brings news that Molly has become involved with political activists and could be in serious danger. Arriving in this beautiful but alien land, Pru embarks on a desperate search for her recalcitrant daughter and meets Ben, a veteran of the US war. He's intelligent, funny, handsome, but damaged. Together they tackle corrupt police, greedy property dealers and a ruthless local party cadre; and when eventually Pru finds her daughter, she also discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.