Thanks to the popular TikTok trend known as #BookTok, US author Colleen Hoover has become one of the world’s most successful writers – with five of her books currently sitting on the New York Times’ Top 10 Best Sellers list.
Colleen, 42, who hails from Texas, began writing as a hobby in 2011 while working as a social worker.
While she had no plans to make it her full-time job at the time, she self-published her first book, called Slammed,