Philippa Stockley is a novelist, author, award-winning journalist, reviewer, painter and designer. She took a scholarship to Oxford (English) then to the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, studying art-historical clothing history, with an 18th century speciality. Following her debut novel, The Edge of Pleasure, her previous novel, Murderous Liaisons, first published as A Factory of Cunning, is an epistolary sequel to Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Her new novel Black Lily, a fast, suspense-filled 17th century story set in London, full of murky characters and pungent settings. Due out with Pimpernel Press on September 6: http://www.pimpernelpress.com/ Stockley lives in London and is completing an interiors book on old London houses for 2019