New York Times, USA TODAY, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in multi-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels are published in translation in more than twenty-five countries. She lives near Toronto, but is frequently in the UK visiting family, friends, and her agents at Curtis Brown, who have represented her since her first publication in 1994.

PRAISE FOR SUSANNA’S BOOKS:

‘One of Canada’s best historical fiction writers’  The Globe and Mail 

‘A deeply engaging romance and a compelling historical novel… Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book’  Bernard Cornwell 

‘A hugely engrossing book and a complete world created’  Ian Rankin  

‘I’ve loved every one of Susanna’s books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly’s delicate touch with characters – historical fiction that pulls you in and won’t let go!’  Diana Gabaldon

‘Sometimes an author catches lightning in a bottle, and Susanna Kearsley does just that’  New York Journal of Books 

‘Kearsley has a poetic sensibility and a sense of mystery; she could write the modern Rebecca’  The Bookseller