Caroline Lawrence is American. She won a scholarship to Cambridge to read Classical Archaeology, then did a degree in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London. She lives with her husband, a graphic designer, by the river in London and is active as a speaker in schools and at book festivals.
Immensely readable TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT The story is so well paced and involving that you don't realise just how much information you are absorbing SCHOOL LIBRARIAN