Biography
Jane Harvey is a pen name. ‘Jane’ crafts fun fiction for the thinking woman (or person!), where she enjoys exploring unexpected friendships and writing happy endings.
This is lucky, because in real life her (prize-winning) fiction is a little bleaker.
She was born and raised on the island of Jersey, and lives with two males and a dog.
Coming Home to Hummingbird House
Book 4 of 4 in the Hummingbird House Series - don't miss out!
Coming Home to Hummingbird House
Book 4 of 4 in the Hummingbird House Series
In 1984, Torvill and Dean are dancing on ice, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and Betty is inviting someone into her home. She’s working away to turn Hummingbird House into a fully-fledged business, but the man in her life is little help. Would she be better off alone?
In 2023, Paul and April are doing the opposite – packing up their flat in Hummingbird House and taking apart April’s handiwork in the process. But when April’s sister, Kelly, grows increasingly unsettled, a radical life change beckons. Does she stick with their shared plan to build an unconventional family home together? Or does something new and intriguing lead her astray?
Book four in the series explores more secrets and friendships within everyone’s favourite house conversion.
Some tenants leave, and others come home – and promise to stay for the rest of their lives. The question is, do they mean it?
Coming Home to Hummingbird House
Book 4 of 4 in the Hummingbird House Series - don't miss out!
Christmas at Hummingbird House
A Short Story from the Hummingbird House Series: Six flats – and now seven tenants. What stories do they hold?
Christmas at Hummingbird House
A short story from the Hummingbird House Series
Paul and April may have settled comfortably into cohabitation, but now a third occupant has come to share the top floor. Will this be the beginning or the end of their domestic bliss?
On the middle floor, Joshua now resides at Number Two. Young, astute, and friendly, he nevertheless remains an enigma. Until Betty invites him along to Christmas dinner…
And then there’s Betty. Stoical, caring, tactical Betty. She can be found making Christmas puddings on ‘Stir Up Sunday’ – but is that all she’s stirring this time?
Join the residents – new and old – this Christmas for a tale of friendships, good cheer, and, as usual – a good many secrets
Christmas at Hummingbird House
A Short Story from the Hummingbird House Series: Six flats – and now seven tenants. What stories do they hold?
Searching for Sandra
Book Three in the Hummingbird House Series
Searching for Sandra
Book Three in the Hummingbird House Series
Make yourself at home in Hummingbird House with this heart-warming new novella.
In 1968, the summer of love seems long gone. Hummingbird House has a new batch of residents, and Betty is settled in a comfortable – though unexpected – form of domestic bliss. Life may not have worked out as planned, but she is determined to make the best of it.
Yet as the months go on, she realises she still has much to learn. With one tenant missing and another threatening to sweep her off her feet, she begins to worry that her happy home could fall around her once more.
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In 2022, Betty has established a comfortable routine. She weeds the front yard. Listens to the radio. Makes cake. At the age of 83, she knows what – and who – she likes, plus just how much she can manage before her arthritis begins to complain.
But when an old friend finally makes an overdue appearance, those guidelines start to take on a new meaning.
Just how much should we do for absent friends? And when is it right to take a chance on love?
Searching for Sandra
Book Three in the Hummingbird House Series
Buttercups in the Basement
Book Two in the Hummingbird House Series
Buttercups in the Basement:
Book Two in the Hummingbird House Series
1967: the summer of love and the year Betty moves into her first home.
Independent. Open. Inexperienced. She is excited to be living with her new husband, William, and committed to returning the rambling Hummingbird House to its former glory.
But when she invites captivating new tenants into her home and settles into married life, her world begins to transform in ways she could never have imagined. She thought she was on a journey toward domesticity and devotion – but her experiences that summer prove to be anything but traditional.
Alternating between the 1960s and the present day, Buttercups in the Basement is a delightful exploration of personal awakening, friendships, and what it means to be happy.
Buttercups in the Basement
Book Two in the Hummingbird House Series
The Landlord of Hummingbird House
Book One in the Hummingbird House Series
The Landlord of Hummingbird House
Book One in the Hummingbird House Series
When April moves into Hummingbird House, she is intrigued by her mysterious landlord, Dai.
With a bruised heart and a distinct lack of furniture, she spends the summer getting to know the other occupants. As she smartens up her home and makes peace with her recent past, she befriends Paul, a solitary ex-chef, and Betty, an elderly lady who lives in the basement flat.
But Hummingbird House holds many secrets, and the relationships of the tenants are not as straightforward as they seem. April learns some shocking truths one eventful night, and realises that victims and villains can look the same.
The Landlord of Hummingbird House is a contemporary novel exploring unlikely friendships, unexpected love interests, and family relationships. Here, everyone is in need of a second chance – and appearances can be deceptive.
The Landlord of Hummingbird House
First Impressions and Second Chances