Jane Elizabeth Varley: Fact File

LIVES in London and the USA with her husband, teenage son, baby daughter and dog named Mustard

GREW up near Marlow, a Thames Riverside town in Buckinghamshire.

HAS never had any training as a writer

WON a scholarship to Oxford University where she read History

QUALIFIED as a barrister and taught property law as a senior lecturer in Property Law

LOVES the campus novels of Alison Lurie and David Lodge – and is a great fan of Michael Connelly’s thrillers

ENJOYS stories about families across different generations, such as Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles

COMPLETED Wives and Lovers in four months while living in France

WRITES every day, starting at 8.30am

SETS herself a minimum of 1000 words a day when writing

LOVES walking her dog in the afternoon

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