<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:b84402e6-6930-4f25-8227-29ae436967e1" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 class="backtitle SC">About the Author</h1> <hr class="halfwidth"/> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <div class="half both-space "> <img alt="[Image]" id="fig_authorphoto" src="images/authorphoto.jpg"/> </div> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <p class="left ">L<span class="smallcaps">ISA</span> H<span class="smallcaps">ILTON</span> is the acclaimed author of <em>Athénaïs</em>, <em>Mistress Peachum’s Pleasure</em>, <em>Queens Consort</em>, and <em>The Horror of Love</em>. She is the author of three novels: the best-selling <em>Wolves in Winter</em>, <em>The House with Blue Shutters</em>, which was short-listed in the UK for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and <em>The Stolen Queen</em>. She was educated at Oxford University and lives in central London.</p> </body> </html>