Ann Bennett was born in Pury End, a small village in Northamptonshire, UK. She read Law at Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor. She started to write in earnest during a career b...view moreAnn Bennett was born in Pury End, a small village in Northamptonshire, UK. She read Law at Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor. She started to write in earnest during a career break to have children, and was inspired to write her first book by researching her father’s wartime experience as a POW on the Thai-Burma railway. She is married with three sons and a granddaughter, lives in Surrey and works as a lawyer.
Ann is also the author of A Daughter’s Promise, Bamboo Island:The Planter’s Wife, Bamboo Heart:A Daughter’s Quest, The Tea Planter’s Club, and The Amulet - all based in SE Asia during WW2.
She has also written The Lake Pavilion, The Lake Palace, The Lake Pagoda and The Lake Villa, set in India, Burma and French Indochina respectively.
Her USA Today bestselling book The Orphan House, The Runaway Sisters, The Child Without a Home and The Forgotten Children are published by Bookouture.view less