Now a mother with a perfect life, Laura thought her past was buried for good. But when her former friend Niamh reappears, bringing news of a skeleton tied to their gap year adventures when they were just young and reckless, and Laura's world starts to unravel. As the truth inches closer to exposure, Laura must confront the past to protect everything she holds dear. Penny Batchelor is the Amazon bestselling author of psychological thrillers My Perfect Sister and Her New Best Friend. She is currently writing her fourth. Her short story, 'The Dilemma,' appears in UnLocked, an anthology to raise money for The Trussell Trust. Penny is a co-founder and judge of the ADCI Literary Prize for adult fiction by a disabled/chronically ill novelist. She lives in Warwickshire with her husband. A brand-new psychological thriller from the Queen of Suspense, Penny Batchelor Author is based in Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Very well connected in writing groups online.
Regularly does events at local libraries.
Disability advocate/activist, writing in Vogue, the Bookseller (she co-edited the 2025 disability takeover edition). In 2022 she co-founded with publisher Clare Christian the ADCI Literary Prize for disabled and chronically ill authors who include positive disability representation in their novels, for which she is one of the judges.
Member of the CWA and well connected in publishing. An alumnus of Faber Academy's six month 'Writing a Novel' course.
Her first psychological thriller My Perfect Sister was longlisted The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize in 2020. She is a regular speaker at literary festivals and events, both in person and online, with past engagements including Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Women's Prize LIVE, The Society of Authors, Arts University Bournemouth, Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival, London Book Fair, The Reading Agency and Warwickshire Library Service.
