Mary Turner Thomson grew up in Edinburgh. She has a BA Hons in Creative and Performing Arts as well as diplomas in marketing, business advice and literature/creative writing. She worked as a business adviser, marketing consultant and motivational trainer before deciding to write a memoir of her marriage to a conman and bigamist. The sequel to The Bigamist, The Psychopath, is due out from Little A in 2021, and Mary is currently working on her first novel, a psychological thriller.