Lucy Moore is the author of nine books, 'a historian with a novelist's relish for human foibles' according to The Sunday Times. She was voted one of the top 20 writers in Britain by the featured in the 'Writers' section of the New Statesman's ""Best of Young British"" issue in 2001 and Boyd Tonkin hailed her rising star in the Independent in 2008. She has written extensively for TV and radio.