A #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Natasha Pulley has won the Betty Trask Award, been shortlisted for the Locus Award, WALTER SCOTT PRIZE, THE RSL'S ENCORE AWARD, and her books have been a Sunday Times, The Times and The Observer book of the month, and a Sunday Times book of the year. She has studied around the world, teaching in China, Japan and Peru before returning to the UK to lecture at Bath Spa University. She also works as a panel tutor at the Institute of Continuing Education in Cambridge, and volunteers at the local shipyard, doing maintenance on tall ships. She lives in Bristol.