About the Author

Meet Gill Paul

GILL PAUL is the bestselling author of ten historical novels, many of which describe real women she thinks have been overlooked or misjudged by historians. Jackie and Maria, published in August 2020, looks at the way the lives of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy and opera singer Maria Callas began to overlap as they became rivals for Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis. She has written two novels about the last Russian royal family: The Secret Wife, published in 2016, which tells the story of cavalry officer Dmitri Malama and Grand Duchess Tatiana, the second daughter of Russia’s last tsar; and The Lost Daughter, published in August 2019, which tells of the attachment Grand Duchess Maria formed with a guard in the house at Ekaterinburg, where the family was held from April to July 1918.

Gill’s other novels include Another Woman’s Husband, about links you may not have been aware of between Wallis Simpson, later the Duchess of Windsor, and Diana, Princess of Wales; Women and Children First, about a young steward who works on the Titanic; The Affair, also known as The Secret Affair, set in Rome in the early 1960s, as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton fall in love while making Cleopatra; and No Place for a Lady, about two Victorian sisters who travel to the Crimean Peninsula during the war there from 1854 to 1856 and face challenges beyond anything they could have imagined.

Gill studied medicine at Glasgow University, then English literature and history, before working in publishing. She speaks at libraries and literary festivals about subjects ranging from the British royal family to the Romanovs and the Kennedys. She lives in London, where she loves wild swimming year-round.

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