Margaret Leroy studied music at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and social work at Leicester University, after which she spent fifteen years as a social worker and counsellor. She is the author of Miscarriage, a self-help book for women, a children’s book, Aristotle Sludge, Pleasure: the Truth about Female Sexuality and Some Girls Do: Why Women Do and Don’t Make the First Move. She has written for several women’s magazines and for the Mail on Sunday, and appeared on numerous television and radio programmes. She lives in Kingson with her husband and two daughters. This is her first novel.
