Bentley, Jessica

Jessica Bentley was born in Australia in 1979 and moved with her mother and sisters to the UK in 1986. She currently resides in London with her husband and enjoys writing historical fiction. From the age of sixteen Jessica fell in love with Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the wind' and since then reads it every year at Christmas. In her debut novel 'The Cane Whisperers' Jessica wanted to create a narrative that was atmospheric of the Antebellum era but one that questioned the very nature of how anyone can be free in a society where slavery exists. The novel deals with how slaves and slave owner...