Elizabeth Speller lived in Berlin, Rome and Paris before reading Classics at Cambridge. She has written for publications as varied as the Independent, Big Issue, TLS and Vogue and has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Birmingham and Bristol. She currently has a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Warwick and divides her life between Gloucestershire and Greece. Her first novel was THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT which was followed by THE STRANGE FATE OF KITTY EASTON.