Jemma Wayne is the author of two previous novels: After Before and Chains of Sand. She has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for both The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award. Jemma's journalism has appeared in The Spectator, National Geographic, The Huffington Post, The Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday, Red Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle and The Jewish News, among others. Born to an American musician father and English mother, Jemma grew up in Hertfordshire and lives in North London.