Biographie de Ann Bennett
Ann Bennett was born in Pury End, a small village in Northamptonshire, UK and now lives in Surrey. She read Law at Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor. She started to write in earnest during a career break to have children. 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 has previously been published under the titles Bamboo Heart and A Daughter's Quest.
It won first prize for fiction published in Asia, Asian Books Blog 2o15 and was shortlisted for the Best Fiction Title (Singapore Book Awards) in 2016. It is the first book in a South East Asian WW2 collection which includes Bamboo Island: The Planter's Wife, Bamboo Road: The Homecoming, A Daughter's Promise, The Tea Planter's Club and The Amulet. All books are standalone stories, and they may be read in any order.
Ann has also written The Lake Pavilion, set in British India in the 1930s, The Lake Palace, set in India during the Burma Campaign of WW2, The Lake Pagoda, and The Lake Villa, both set in Indochina during WW2. 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 grown-up sons and a granddaughter and works as a lawyer.
For more information please visit her website at annbennettauthor.com