Alex Brown is a best seller British author and columnist, of eleven books including the hugely popular Carrington's series, The Great Christmas Knit Off, The Great Village Show, The Secret of Orchard Cottage and A Postcard from Italy. Alexandra was born in Brighton worked in financial services for many years. She got her first book deal after meeting a HarperCollins editor at a Romantic Novelists' Association party, and they worked together on what was to become the Carrington's series. In 2014, HarperCollins signed her to write a further series of three books set in the fictional village of Tindledale.