About the Author

Susanna Johnston was born in 1935. She is a novelist and former features writer for TATLER, whose first piece of writing won a DAILY MIRROR competition on how to solve the Suez crisis. Coming from a family of writers - her father ran Reuters and her brothers were John and Alexander Chancellor. She has been married to the architect, Nicholas Johnston for sixty years and they have four daughters and thirteen grandchildren. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband.