Anna Sayburn Lane is a novelist, short story writer and storyteller, inspired by the history and contemporary life of London. The Peacock Room is her second novel. She has published short stories in a number of magazines, including Mslexia, Scribble and One Eye Grey, and has worked as a journalist for more than 25 years. Her award-winning story Conservation was described by judge and Booker-longlisted author Alison MacLeod as a powerful and profound contemporary piece in which one man's story stands for an entire nation's... it's a punch to the heart, a story that will haunt and touch its readers deeply. She lives on the Kent coast.
