FIONA VALPY is an acclaimed bestselling author of eleven novels, with worldwide sales totaling over three million copies. Her novels have been #1 bestsellers in the USA, UK, and Australia, and been listed as Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. Valpy is a patron of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Birnam Book Festival, Teapot Trust and The Little Sherpa Foundation. Through donations from royalties, she's raised £12,000 (and counting) for the global charity Médecins Sans Frontières and The Little Sherpa Foundation. When not writing, she enjoys daily dips in the River Tay and walking in the hills around her home in Scotland.