Her work, often dealing with the erotic lives of older people, has given rise to a new literary genre, described by the Observer newspaper, as 'gran-lit'.
[2] Boyd was born and spent the first six months of her life in Prestatyn, North Wales, where her father, an army major, was stationed after the war.
Thursdays in the Park had modest success in print form, although it was noted at the time that the investigation of the romantic lives of people in their 60s was unusual in popular literature.
The Times described Boyd as "putting the sex back into sexagenarian"; and the phrase "Fifty Shades of Grey for the over 60s" was taken up by a number of newspapers including The Mail and The Independent.
[6] Boyd can be seen to adopt a broadly feminist position in her works, demonstrating a particular interest in the influence older women have over their own lives as they age.