Sally Beauman was born in Devon, and graduated from Girton College, Cambridge. As a journalist, she has worked in America for New York magazine, and has written for the New Yorker . In England, she has worked for the Daily Telegraph, for Vogue, and was editor of Queen magazine. She has published two works of non-fiction, including The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades. Her novels: Destiny, Dark Angel, and the series Lovers and Liars, Danger Zones and Sextet, have been translated into over twenty languages and have been bestsellers worldwide. Sally Beauman lives with her family in London and Gloucestershire.

Praise for Sally Beauman

SEXTET
'[A] peach of a novel … Sally Beauman plays extremely clever games with the staples of popular fiction, moving the pieces to make original and intriguing patterns … a hugely entertaining read, seriously romantic and with a terrific sense of atmosphere'
Kate Saunders Daily Express

DANGER ZONES
'Compulsively readable and utterly engrossing - one of those books which hooks you from page one until you reluctantly surrender it in the small hours of Saturday morning'
The Times

LOVERS AND LIARS
'A complex, sexy thriller … a glorious tangle of half-truths and double lies, of staged deaths and faked madness, with a touching love story at the heart of it … this is truly the stuff of which sleepless nights are made'
Penny Vincenzi, Sunday Express

DARK ANGEL
'A rich and engrossing read'
Evening Standard

DESTINY
'The most talked about novel in years'
Daily Mail