Hazel Gaynor

Hazel Gaynor is an author and freelance journalist, writing regularly for press, magazines and websites in the UK and Ireland. Her award-winning parenting and lifestyle blog, 'Hot Cross Mum' was published in 2011 as an ebook 'Hot Cross Mum: Bitesize Slices of Motherhood'. Hazel's writing success has been featured in The Sunday Times Magazine and Irish Times and she has also appeared on TV and radio.

Hazel writes 'Off The Shelf': a book review blog for hellomagazine.com, reviewing books by, and interviewing authors such as Jojo Moyes, Katie Fforde, Melissa Hill, Monica McInerney, Amy Chua and others. She also writes a guest blog for writing.ie

'The Girl Who Came Home - A Titanic Novel' is Hazel's first novel. Originally from North Yorkshire, England, she now lives in Ireland with her husband, two young children and an accident-prone cat.

Hazel is represented by Sheila Crowley of Curtis Brown, London.