Carmen Reid is a Scottish

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

. She is the author of the ''Secrets of St Jude'' series of

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set at a girls boarding school in

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, the ''Annie Valentine'' series of novels about a

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, and several other books in the

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genre.Carmen Reid (personal website)

Novels

Non-Series Novels

*''Three in a Bed'' (2002) *''Did The Earth Move?'' (2003) *''How Was It For You?'' (2004) *''Up All Night'' (2005) *''The Jewels of Manhattan'' (2011) Corgi Books

Annie Valentine Novels

# ''The Personal Shopper'' (2007) # ''Late Night Shopping'' (2008) # ''How Not to Shop'' (2009) # ''Celebrity Shopper'' (2010) # ''New York Valentine'' (2011) Corgi Books

Secrets at St Jude's

# ''New Girl'' (2008) # ''Jealous Girl'' (2009) # ''Drama Girl'' (2010) # ''Rebel Girl'' (2010) # ''Sunshine Girl'' (2011) # ''Party Girl'' (2012)

References

External links

Carmen Reid web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Carmen Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scottish women novelists Scottish women writers 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British women writers