About the Author

Anna Blundy has worked in the news media since leaving Oxford in 1992. She has published two books, EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE, a memoir of her father,and ONLY MY DREAMS, a novel set in England and Russia. She lives in Italy with her husband, Horatio, and children Lev and Hope. Her proudest achievement is having been a blues singer in a Moscow band in the early 1990s and she wishes she was more like her heroine, Faith Zanetti.