Tessa Lorant Warburg lives in England with her elder son, his Thai wife and their three lively children. Originally a mathematician, Tessa began her working life as a computer programmer, then married an author who encouraged her to start writing. She wrote a series of unexpectedly popular books about her hobby of knitting under her maiden name Tessa Lorant, and patented two knitting aids. She is featured as one of a handful of knitters in Richard Rutt's seminal A HISTORY OF HAND KNITTING. After her husband died of cancer Tessa wrote, at his request, her first non-knitting book, A VOICE AT TWI...