JO BAKER was born in Lancashire and educated at Oxford University and Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of The Undertow, and of 3 earlier novels published in the United Kingdom: Offcomer, The Mermaid's Child and The Telling. She lives in Lancaster.
Actress and producer Anna Bentinck trained at the Arts Educational School and has made over eight hundred broadcasts for BBC radio. Animation voices include the series 64 Zoo Lane, and on TV she has played Mary Dickens in Charles Dickens and Mary Rutherford in the Marie Curie series. Her many audiobooks include Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman, A Little Death by Laura Wilson, and Queen Victoria by Evelyn Anthony.