RACHEL HORE worked in London publishing for many years before moving with her family to Norwich, where she teaches publishing and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She is married to the writer D J Taylor and they have three sons.
Rachel’s previous novels are The Dream House, The Memory Garden, The Glass Painter’s Daughter, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Romantic Novel of the Year award, A Place of Secrets, selected by Richard and Judy for their Book Club, A Gathering Storm, shortlisted for the RONA Historical Novel of the Year in 2012, and the latest bestsellers, The Silent Tide, A Week in Paris, The House on Bellevue Gardens and Last Letter Home, also selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club.