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About the Author

A former dramaturg and freelance editor, Priya Parmar was educated at Mount Holyoke College, The University of Oxford and The University of Edinburgh. She is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. Priya and her husband and their French bulldog Herbert divide their time between Hawaii and London. Emilia Fox is best known for her role as Dr Nikki Alexander in BBC’s Silent Witness. She started her career in acclaimed BBC adaptations such as Pride and Prejudice and ITV's Rebecca, and has since worked across theatre, film and television. More recently, Emilie starred as the title role in the 2022 AcornTV drama, Signora Volpe. Also a frequent audiobook narrator, Emilia’s reading of Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie was a 2005 Audie Award Finalist.
Clare Corbett is an English actress and voice artist. She has appeared on stage in productions of To Kill a Mockingbird, Pygmalion and Spoonface Steinberg among others. Winner of the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Radio Award, she has appeared in over 250 radio plays including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis and Dr Zhivago. She has also narrated numerous audiobooks, including Girl on the Train, which earned her Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2017. Trained at LAMDA graduating in 2003. He has an extensive background in theatre in London's West End as well as the Edinburgh Festival where his portrayal of infamous murderer Richard Loeb in 'Never the Sinner' was described by The Scotsman as "a tour de force: flamboyant, posturing, ironic, and with the magnetism the part requires", and prompted The Times to feature him as a "Great British Hope" when the production transferred to the Arts Theatre in London's West End. Julian Rhind-Tutt is a British actor. Julian studied literature and drama at Warwick University, and then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama where he won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award. The award gave him a year of BBC radio work, which has continued throughout his career. Julian's early stage career included work at the National Theatre in The Madness of King George, The Way of the World and Richard II. A range of supporting roles in television and film followed, including The Trench, Tomb Raider, Hippies, and the American series Keen Eddie. Anthony Calf (4 May 1959) is an English actor, born in Hammersmith, London, England. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He has recurring roles in the television medical drama Holby City, as Michael Beauchamp, and New Tricks as Strickland. He has also worked in theatre, where his credits include productions of The Madness of King George III with the National Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The false servant Royal National Theatre and Rock’n Roll Duke of York's Theatre. He has been nominated as best actor in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2008 for his work in Uncle Vanya Gate Theatre. He made his television debut in the 1982 Doctor Who episode 'The Visitation'. In the same year, he landed the role of Digby Geste in a television adaptation of Beau Geste. His other television credits include the part of novelist Lawrence Durrell in My Family and Other Animals, Pip in Great Expectations and Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. He has also appeared in episodes of Doc Martin, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Poirot. In 2010 Calf played the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the BBC's revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, reprising his stage role as Eden (twenty years older as Prime Minister at the time of Suez) in Howard Brenton's Never So Good (2008).