Julie Wassmer

Julie Wassmer was born in the East End of London and had a variety of different jobs before she finally settled down to become a professional television drama writer.

She worked on several TV series, including ITV’s London’s Burning, C5’s Family Affairs and the popular BBC soap, EastEnders, which she wrote for almost 20 years.

In 2010, her autobiography More Than Just Coincidence was published by Harper Collins/True, telling the story of how, twenty years before, she was reunited by an extraordinary quirk of Fate with the baby daughter she had given up for adoption when she was a teenager. The book entered the Sunday Times Best Selling Non Fiction Top Twenty and went on to become Mumsnet Book of the Year.

In 2015, Julie’s debut crime novel, The Whitstable Pearl Mystery, was published by award-winning publisher, Little, Brown Book Group. Six other books have since followed, with more on the way, and the television rights to the series have been optioned by the TV production company, Buccaneer.

Julie moved to Whitstable almost twenty years ago where she shares a home with her husband, Kas, and two cats, Lily and Maisie. She also spends a great deal of time campaigning on environmental issues.