Tessa Barclay is a former publishing editor and journalist who has written many successful novels, among them the four-part Craigallan series (A Sower Went Forth, The Stony Places, Harvest of Thorns and The Good Ground), the Wine Widow trilogy (The Wine Widow, The Champagne Girls and The Last Heiress) and the Corvill weaving saga (A Web of Dreams, Broken Threads and The Final Pattern), Other People's Dreams, A Professional Woman, A Gleam of Gold, A Hidden Beauty, Her Father's Child, The Millionaire's Woman, The Saturday Girl and The Precious Gift. She lives in south-west London.