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Amanda Craig was born in 1959. She is married, with two children, lives in London and reviews widely.

Cressida Connolly was born in 1960. She is a journalist and reviewer. She lives in Worcestershire with her husband and three children.

Ruth Carrington trained as a barrister but spent much of her working life abroad in international law. She now knows the court system from the inside as a part-time judge for the past eight years.

Rebecca Connell lives in South London. She graduated from Oxford University, where she read English, in 2001. After working in television for several years, devising and researching factual entertainment programming, she moved to market research in 2005. She currently works as a researcher and writer of articles and reports dealing with aspects of youth culture and lifestyle. Her first novel, ‘The Art of Losing’, was published in 2009; ‘Told in Silence’ is her second.