Jacqueline Ward MBE is a UK-based author and narrative psychologist. She writes emotionally driven, psychologically rich fiction about women’s lives, identity, and the stories families tell themselves. Her work spans psychological suspense and contemporary book-club fiction, always with a keen eye on power, secrets, and the quiet revolutions that happen behind closed doors.

She is the author of eight novels that were reviewed nationally. How to Play Dead, her second novel, was selected as a recommended text for the 16 Days in WA campaign in 2022, supporting human rights and the elimination of violence against women.

Jacqueline holds a PhD in narrative and storytelling, where her research produced a new model of identity construction. She has worked with victims of domestic violence and the families of missing people, and received an MBE for services to vulnerable people in 2013.

Jacqueline is represented by Danielle Marshall at Jane Rotrosen Agency, New York