Penny Feeny grew up in Cambridge, but has been settled in Liverpool for most of her adult life. She has worked in a gallery in Rome and in publishing in London, and has been an arts administrator, editor and radio presenter. She is married with two sons and three daughters. Her short fiction has been widely published and broadcast and won several awards. She is the author of three previous novels and her debut, That Summer in Ischia, was one of the summer of 2011's bestselling titles.