I've been training to write delicious fiction for clever women my whole life. As a journalist, I wrote for all the great British newspapers: The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Evening Standard and for Vogue, Tatler, and The New Statesman. I've also been an investment banker and commodity futures trader. I've traveled all through Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. I'm the proud mother of two wildly spirited daughters and an adventurous stepson. My husband and I divide our time between New York City and a medieval village in the South of France.