Julia Gregson

Julia Gregson has the storyteller's gift for finding the real human stories in the dramas of history. In 'The Water Horse' she brought the Crimean vividly to life, in 'East of the Sun', she took us to 1920s India. Her novels are always impeccably researched, and alive with fascinating detail, but above and beyond this, is her grasp of the tender, the subtle and the poignant moments in the lives of the characters she creates.

Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At twenty-six years old, not yet a fully-trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right...