[1] She won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 2013 for Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams[2] and the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Comedy Novel of the Year in 2018 for The Summer Seaside Kitchen.

[3] Jenny Colgan studied at the University of Edinburgh and worked for six years in the health service.

[4] She is married to Andrew Beaton,[5] a marine engineer, and has three children.

[9] In 2018 she won an edition of Celebrity Mastermind with a score of 21 points.

[10] In July 2012, her Doctor Who tie-in novel, Dark Horizons, was published under the name J. T.