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Ann Widdecombe is best known as a Member of Parliament and for her broadcasting and journalism, but long had ambitions to write novels. She was born in 1947 and grew up moving around the country and abroad with her parents, as her father served in the Admiralty. She was educated at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford. She now lives in London and in the picturesque village of Sutton Valence, Kent. She is the author of two previous novels, The Clematis Tree and An Act of Treachery. She writes her novels on long train journeys and in Singapore when she visits her Chinese nanny.
Widdecombe tells the story with rattling good pace and creates
credible and sympathetic characters.
*THE OBSERVER*
authentic, distressing and unexpectedly touching.
*THE EVENING STANDARD*
Widdecombe is revealed as an accomplished, if sedate, storyteller
and also a bit of a romantic.
*THE HERALD*
a fine, bold opening
*THE TIMES*
She has a good eye for detail.
*THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH*
You certainly want to know what is going to happen and Widdecombe
keeps your attention throughout.
*THE SUNDAY EXPRESS*
there's a certain compulsion to her storytelling.
*THE DAILY MAIL*
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