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Sandy Barker

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I’m a writer, traveller and hopeful romantic with a lengthy bucket list, and many of my travel adventures have found homes in my novels. I’m also an avid reader, a film buff, a wine lover and a coffee snob.

I am currently on a one-year sabbatical, living and writing across the world, with my partner, Ben, who I met while travelling in Greece. Our real-life love story inspired my debut novel One Summer in Santorini, the first in the five-book Holiday Romance series with One More Chapter, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Also with One More Chapter, is the Christmas Romance series, celebrating my favourite time of the year, and a stand-alone romcom, The Dating Game, set in the world of reality TV.

I am now writing for Boldwood Books, including the 5-
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When Tommy Met Ally

If you’ve read My Big Greek Island Ex-scape, here’s a little something for you – a bonus scene that happens long before the book begins…

I almost didn’t go out the night my life changed forever.

But with my best mate, Duncan, standing in my doorway giving me shit about studying on a Friday night – going on and on for at least five minutes – I finally relented. If only to shut him up.

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This book will whisk you away to Greece. It's easy to see that Mandy Baggot not only loves Greece but knows just how to make it jump off the page -- perfect for the armchair traveller.

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“I hate crowds—most short people do.”
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“She stayed put while the rest of us went”
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“tour. Georgina knew her stuff and Monaco”
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