Victoria Routledge worked in publishing for three years before her first novel, FRIENDS LIKE THESE, was published.

She was born in the Lake District and now lives in London and writes full time as a novelist and journalist.

She is author of FRIENDS LIKE THESE, KISS HIM GOODBYE, ...AND FOR STARTERS, SWANSONG and CONSTANCE AND FAITH.

Her sixth novel, THE SECRETS OF SAINT DEE, is set in an English village that has been uninhabited for sixty years. When the houses are opened up again, they bear as many secrets as their inhabitants.