Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert is a British romance novelist. She writes contemporary and paranormal romance. She is known for writing diverse narratives with characters of varying life experiences. She is best known for her 2019 novel Get a Life, Chloe Brown.

Early life and education Hibbert was born to a mixed Roma and Sierra Leonean mother and a father of Jamaican heritage whose parents arrived in Britain as part of the Windrush generation. Hibbert studied at the University of Leicester. It was during her final year at university that she decided to pursue writing professionally.

Career Hibbert used an inheritance from her great-grandmother to finance the beginning of her writing career. She writes under the name Talia Hibbert as her legal name is "apparently difficult to pronounce." She began self-publishing in 2017, putting out ten books in that first year. Her first traditionally published book Get a Life, Chloe Brown was released in 2019 with Avon Romance and is the first book of a family romance trilogy.

Her debut fantasy romance, The Last Thorn, will be published in summer 2026.

Themes Many of Hibbert's books can be described as part of the #ownvoices movement, with her characters being part of marginalized groups with which Hibbert also identifies. Many of her protagonists are Black women. The main character in Get a Life, Chloe Brown lives with chronic pain. In her book A Girl Like Her, the main character is autistic.

Hibbert's stories include characters with a diverse range of body types.

In the author's LGBTQ romance Work For It, one of the protagonists deals with finding love while living with depression. She also has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Hibbert's issues with doctors inspired her to write about medical discrimination in Get a Life, Chloe Brown.

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