Penny Batchelor is the Amazon bestselling author of two psychological thrillers My Perfect Sister (which was longlisted for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize in 2020) and Her New Best Friend published by Embla Books. Her third thriller The Reunion Party is published on 25 June 2024 and she is currently writing a fourth. As well as being a novelist she is also a freelance journalist and regular columnist for The Bookseller. Penny is a co-founder and judge of the ADCI Literary Prize and, with the Professional Writing Academy, sponsors course bursaries for disabled writers.