SADIE JONES is the author of three previous novels: The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in the UK and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; Small Wars, a tale of love, war, and honor, which was published to critical praise on both sides of the Atlantic; and The Uninvited Guests, the best-selling and highly acclaimed drama of dark surprises beloved of writers as diverse as Ann Patchett and Jacqueline Winspear. Sadie Jones lives in London.