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Talia Hibbert

Black British author of warm, witty contemporary romances featuring complicated women, devoted love interests and inclusive casts. She is best known for the Brown Sisters trilogy.

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About Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert is a Black British romance author of Jamaican and Sierra Leonean heritage. She began self-publishing in 2017 while at university, then moved into traditional publishing with Avon’s Brown Sisters trilogy. She has also written young-adult romance, including Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute.

Hibbert’s romances pair sharp banter and familiar genre setups with attentive character work. Enemies become lovers; friends are pushed into close quarters; guarded people learn to ask for what they need. Her casts include Black, queer, disabled and neurodivergent characters whose identities shape their lives without excluding them from comedy, desire or happy endings.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown opens the Brown Sisters trilogy, followed by Take a Hint, Dani Brown and Act Your Age, Eve Brown. Chloe, a web designer with fibromyalgia, responds to a near-death experience by writing a list of adventures. Her reluctant guide is Red Morgan, the tattooed building superintendent she has thoroughly misjudged. TIME selected the novel for its 2024 list of 50 notable romance novels. Hibbert later made her YA debut with Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute, a former-friends-to-rivals romance set around a wilderness enrichment program.

Start with Get a Life, Chloe Brown. It introduces Hibbert’s blend of dry humor, emotional candor and romantic tension through Chloe’s rule-bound quest for a fuller life and Red’s quieter effort to recover his confidence. It also provides the natural entrance to Dani’s and Eve’s stories.

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Get a Life, Chloe Brown

After a frightening brush with death, Chloe Brown decides that managing her fibromyalgia has allowed caution and isolation to define too much of her life. She moves out of her family home and creates a list of experiences intended to make her more adventurous. Help arrives from an unlikely source: Redford “Red” Morgan, the motorcycle-riding superintendent of her apartment building, whose warmth and artistic talent complicate Chloe’s dismissive first impression of him. Their mutually beneficial arrangement develops through sharp exchanges, physical attraction, and increasingly vulnerable conversations. Yet both characters carry wounds that affection alone cannot erase. Chloe must distinguish necessary self-protection from emotional withdrawal, while Red confronts the damage left by an abusive former relationship. Their romance becomes a story about pleasure, autonomy, disability, trust, and the difficult work of being understood without surrendering one’s boundaries.

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