Louise Pennington, Baroness Bentinck, worked in advertising for five years before writing full-time. She was born in Bristol and has lived in Vienna, the background to her novel The Diplomat's Wife. She has recently completed Bricks and Bones, a thriller novel set in East Sussex where she now lives. Louise also writes for performance and her first full length feature, Don't Stop Breathing, was shortlisted for the Oscar Moore Screenwriting Prize, and a play, Fractured, formed part of Brighton's Little Theatre's 2012-13 calendar of productions.
