Victoria Hattersley lives in Norwich, UK and studied English Literature at the University of East Anglia. She was brought up in the Fens of East Anglia, where the sky is intimidatingly vast and the ground is gradually sinking. This may account for her upbeat writing style. She has a long-held love of the Gothic which she has never been able to shake and very likely never will. She lives with her daughter, cats and expanding book collection. It is her ambition to age into Miss Havisham (though not to burn to death in her own house).