Victoria Hislop is an English author known for her compelling storytelling. She read English at Oxford and worked in publishing, PR, and as a journalist before becoming a novelist. She is married and has two children.

Her first novel, The Island, held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide. Victoria won the Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and the Richard & Judy Summer Read competition.

Her second novel, The Return, was also a Sunday Times number one bestseller, and her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A short story collection, One Cretan Evening, was published in September, and a third novel, The Thread, was published in English in October.