About Santa Montefiore
Santa Montefiore was born in England. She went to Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset and read Spanish and Italian at Exeter University. She has written more than a dozen bestselling novels which have sold well over two million copies worldwide. She lives with her husband, the historian and broadcaster Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their two children in London.
About Genevieve Gaunt
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of several novels, including her debut novel, After You’d Gone, which won a Betty Trask Award; The Distance between US, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; and The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award. She has worked as the deputy literary editor of the London Independent on Sunday.