16 February: Jill Name Day

In Sweden, today is the name day for people called Jill.

Jill is an English feminine given name, often a short form of the name Gillian, which in turn originated as a Middle English variant of Juliana. Jill was a common name in the 15th century, and used in the English nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. 10 famous people called Jill:

1. Jill Dando: British television presenter who was murdered in 1999.

2. Jill Biden (pictured): American educator and former First Lady of the United States.

3. Jill Halfpenny: English actress who played Rebecca Hopkins on Coronation Street and Kate Mitchell on EastEnders.

4. Jill Archer: a character from the BBC Radio 4 soap opera, The Archers.

5. Jill Stein: American physician and activist, the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 elections.

6. Dame Jilly Cooper (born Jill Sallitt): English author and journalist, best known for her long-running Rutshire Chronicles series.

7. Jill Pole: a main character in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair.

8. Jill Gascoine: English actress who portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes.

9. Jill Scott: English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. At 5 feet 11 inches (1.81 m), Scott was nicknamed "Crouchy" after male international footballer Peter Crouch.

10. Jill St. John: American actress best known for playing Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl of the James Bond franchise, in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.

Bonus: Jill Warner, one of the main characters in my novel, Tale of Two Sisters.

A Tale of Two Sisters

During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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