

(Bowker Author Biography) Eileen Goudge is the author of "The New York Times" bestseller "One Last Dance", & "The Second Silence" as well as "Garden of Lies", "Thorns of Truth", "Trail of Secrets", "Such Devoted Sisters", & "Blessing in Disguise". Her title The Diary is a New York Times bestseller. Her other works include Thorns of Truth, The Diary, and Once in a Blue Moon. Since then, she has written over thirty novels for young adults and over ten works of women's fiction. Her first novel, Garden of Lies, was sold in 1986 to Viking for nearly one million dollars. She continued to write the Sweet Valley High titles while working on a novel. She now had enough money to end another bad marriage and move to New York City with her two children. In the early eighties, she was chosen to help launch a new line of teen romances, which became the successful Sweet Valley High series. She decided to become a professional writer, started writing non-stop and managed to sell a few articles. Two years later, she was divorced, with a baby, and had to go on welfare. At eighteen, she dropped out of college, ran off with a man dodging the draft, and got married. I attribute its success in part to my having followed the timeworn advice: write what you.

Garden of Lies went on to become a New York Times’ bestseller and was sold around the world, translated into twenty-two languages. Eileen Goudge was born Jand grew up in the San Francisco bay area. When Rose wears her one good skirt to work that’s been ironed so many times it’s shiny in spots Been there, done that.
