ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and ltaly, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. Her books include the acclaimed social history Among the Bohemians: Experinents in Living 1900–1939, and Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, published by Penguin in 2002 and 2007. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex.