Hazel Prior

Hazel Prior is a British author whose uplifting, feel-good fiction features eccentric elderly characters and celebrates the power of human connection. She is also a harpist. Away with the Penguins follows eighty-six-year-old Veronica McCreedy, a wealthy, curmudgeonly woman living alone in her Scottish mansion, who becomes obsessed with a nature documentary about penguins and decides to travel to Antarctica — a journey that transforms her. The novel was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and an international bestseller. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers heartwarming fiction with unforgettable elderly characters — stories that prove it's never too late for adventure and connection.