About the Author

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with her family and an assortment of animals. She is the author of international bestselling novelThe Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) and its companion,The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023). Before she became a novelist,Pip spent most of her working life as a social researcher, studying what keeps us well and what helps us thrive These questions lead Pip and her family to a single summer in Italy that planted the seeds of her writing career, an experience she captures in her memoir,One Italian Summer.