Elizabeth Buchan lives in London with her two children and her husband. She read for a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury and began her career as a blurb writer for Penguin Books. This was excellent training for an infant writer as it necessitated reading widely through the Penguin list – fiction and non-fiction, in order to encapsulate what a book was about. She later became a fiction editor at Random House but decided after a couple of years that she should do what she wished to do: write. For her first two novels, she took as her subject very typical watersheds – the French Revolution (Daughters of the Storm)  and the Second World War (Light of the Moon). The latter followed the fortunes of a woman SOE agent in Occupied France. ‘Even a man could read it’ wrote the Sunday Times. Her third novel, Consider the Lily, is the story of a woman in the Thirties who comes terms with her unhappiness through gardening. ‘A gorgeously well written tale: funny, sad and sophisticated’ wrote The Independent. Perfect Love took as its theme Mark Twain’s dictum ‘No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married for quarter of a century’ and explored the bargains and accommodations that have to be made in any relationship. Against Her Nature reworked Thackeray’s Vanity Fair set against a backdrop of the Lloyds disasters during the Eighties. They were followed by Secrets of the Heart and Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman. The latter has sold all over the world and has been made into a television film for CBS. Her latest novels are The Good Wife and That Certain Age and the sequel to Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, The Second Wife.

            She reviews for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival