Note: (From "Time to Read") "Hilary trained as an actress but has spent most of her working life teaching drama and theatre studies. Having achieved an MA in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, she is now concentrating on being a full-time writer. She published three novels, all thrillers, in the 1980s but is now concentrating on historical novels. She won the Historical Novel Society's Kythira Prize for a short story in 1998."