Sarah Dunant is the author of many international bestsellers, most recently Sacred Hearts, the completion of her Italian historical trilogy. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, London and read history at Newnham College, Cambridge and has worked in theatre, radio and television. She lives in London for most of the year. Sarah Dunant began as a writer for various publications. As a broadcaster she was one of the principals responsible for hosting The Late Show on BBC2 and has also presented Woman's Hour and A Good Read on Radio 4. She also hosted the BBC2 series Did You... See? whilst regular host Ludovic Kennedy was absent due to ill-health. Sarah Dunant's work ranges over a number of genres and eras, going from hard-boiled detective fiction to historical thriller. Her narratives are hard to categorise due to their inventive treatment of time and space, and a favoured device of hers is to run two or more plot strands concurrently, as she does to great effect in Mapping the Edge.
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