Penny Hancock Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Penny Hancock is a British published author.

After spending several years in London, she resides in Cambridge. There she shares her home with her husband and their three children. She is a part time primary school teacher who is employed at a speech and language school. She has traveled quite a bit as a language teacher.

The author grew up in South East London. She would then get her English degree in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She also taught English as a foreign languages in countries like Greece, Italy, and Morocco. She took a PGCE and then got hired for a job working as a teacher in an inner city school in London. Penny would also move in with her partner Andy in his house in East London, and they would go on to have three children together.

While working to raise their children, Penny still taught in primary schools while also teaching English to asylum seekers and running adult education classes on writing. At the time she penned articles for different papers and publications that included The Times Ed, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Express Magazine, Child Education, and more, focusing on family and education.

Penny would also go on to take an Arvon writing course and attend Anglia Ruskin University, where she received her MA in creative writing. This encouraged her to write her first novel and she has not looked back ever since. She has written readers for English language learners for Cambridge University Press and has made a Primary English course for children that was published by Longmans.

Penny is a Richard and Judy summer reads pick and was the recipient of the East Anglian prize for fiction. She is known for having written such suspenseful psychological thriller stories as Tideline, The Darkening Hour, A Trick of the Mind, and more.

Her women’s fiction novel and reading club selection I Thought I Knew You ended up being selected as the East Anglian book of the year for fiction in 2019 and was optioned for film in the United States by 51 Entertainment.

She has two daughters who are grown as well as a son and several grandchildren. She has always had a fascination when it comes to human relationships and their complexities and had an interest in family dynamics as well as the darker sides to our personalities. Some of Penny’s best and most frightening ideas come to her when she is swimming in cold water.

Kept in the Dark is a 2012 book by Penny Hancock. If you’ve been on the lookout for a fresh new book to read for the summer, this might be the pick for you in a thriller that is ideal no matter what the season.

When it comes to the house next door, appearing to be respectable may provide a convenient cover for all types of sins. When the 15 year old nephew of the neighbor goes missing, no one would think to look at someone like Sonia. She is really the last person that people would expect.

She is 43 years old and is a wife and mother, someone who is not only put together but very attractive. Everything in her life appears to be normal and functional, just like the River House she lives in that sees over the Thames. But that’s all about to change when she encounters Jez.

He shows up at her front door and the teen boy wakes up a flood of memories that could end up revealing a scary truth. Sonia is pulled to Jez by a compulsion that she does not really understand and ends up taking him captive. In the end, she may be willing to give up a lot in order to keep him. Can Sonia overcome her nature or is she going to take this too far? Read this thriller from Penny Hancock to find out!

The Choice is a 2022 novel written by Penny Hancock. If you’ve been wanting something new to read and are a fan of authors like Jodi Picoult, this might be right up your alley. Author Jenny Quintana called this book ‘Emotional and thought-provoking’. This is a story about family secrets as well as the way that small decisions can have big consequences.

Renee Gulliver seems like a woman who has it all in life. She lives in a gorgeous house that sees over an estuary on the East Coast of England, is successful in her job as a relationship therapist, has three children who have grown up, and has her grandson Xavier.

Everything is going well but then things quickly start to fall apart. When Renee fails to pick Xavier up from school, there are going to be huge repercussions. Renee feels horrible about it and as if that weren’t enough, the consequences start rolling in.

The community begins to question her priorities as clients quickly abandon her. As grievances that have been held for a long time come to the surface, Renee deals with even more as her daughter Mia gives her an ultimatum. Renee must work through all the misunderstandings in an attempt to bring her family together.

Will she be able to do it or will it be just too much? Is there any chance of Xavier coming back again? Find out by getting a copy of this book that author Kate Rhodes calls a ‘real tour de force’ and follow along with every word until the end to discover what happens in The Choice by Penny Hancock.