Hannah Dolby's first job was in the circus and she has aimed to keep life as interesting since. She trained as a journalist in Hastings and has worked in PR for many years, promoting museums, galleries, palaces, gardens and even Dolly the sheep. She completed the Curtis Brown selective three-month novel writing course, and she won runner-up in the Comedy Women in Print Awards for this novel with the prize of a place on an MA in Comedy Writing at the University of Falmouth. She currently lives in London. You can follow Hannah on Twitter @LadyDolby
So original and well written, I couldn't put it down... I can't remember rooting for a heroine as hard as I did for Violet. -- Lucy Vine Charming, exhilarating, fabulously funny and so full of heart - Violet is the heroine I've been waiting for. -- Daisy Buchanan