Biographie de Ann Bennett
Ann Bennett was born in Pury End, a small village in Northamptonshire, UK. She read Law at Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor. She started to write in earnest during a career break to have children. Her first book, Bamboo Heart: A Daughter's Quest, was inspired by researching her father's experience as a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma railway. It won the 2015 Asian Books Blog award for fiction published in Asia.
Bamboo Island: The Planter's Wife, Bamboo Road: The Homecoming, The Tea Planter's Club and The Amulet, are all about WW2 in South East Asia. She has also written The Lake Pavilion, set in British India in the 1930s, The Lake Palace, set in India during the Burma Campaign of WWII, The Lake Pagoda and The Lake Villa, both set in Indochina during WWII. Ann's other books, The Runaway Sisters, bestselling The Orphan House, The Child Without a Home and The Forgotten Children are published by Bookouture.
Ann is married with three sons and a granddaughter, lives in Surrey and works as a lawyer.