She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Literature.
As more than 70 of her novels were made into TV movies by network ZDF, she has been very popular in Germany.
In the early years of her career, she also wrote under the pen name "Jane Fraser".
Awarded the 2002 British Tourism Award together with Claus Beling, programme director of German network ZDF, for the positive effect her books and the TV movies had on tourism.