Philip Sington was born in Cambridge. His father was an industrial chemist and his mother an officer in British Intelligence. After studying History at Trinity College, Cambridge he worked as a business journalist and magazine editor for nine years. He co-authored six novels under the joint pseudonym Patrick Lynch, selling well over a million copies worldwide. His solo novels include Zoia's Gold and The Einstein Girl. To date his work has been translated into twenty-one foreign languages. He lives in London with his family. www.philipsington.com
Remarkable... Superbly anchored in place and time. A brilliant, evocative novel, a gripping hard-nosed authentic thriller -- Peter Millar The Times The Valley of Unknowing is simply superb: affecting but never melodramatic, literary but never less than thrilling. Financial Times A remarkable novel, the first in English to give us a nuanced portrait of life in Communist East Germany, its absurdity, its menace, and its pervasive sense of betrayal -- Joseph Kanon, Author Of The Good German Amadeus meets The Lives of Others in a compelling story of jealousy and betrayal behind the Iron Curtain Kirkus (starred review) Sington brilliantly captures what life in East Germany must have been like... Perfect Chasingbawa