Fiona Barton

Apart from being a novelist, Fiona Barton has worked as a senior writer for the Daily Mail, a news editor for the Daily-Telegraph, and also as a news-editor for the Mail on Sunday. While working for the Mail on Sunday, Barton was awarded with a National Press Award. Eventually, in the year 2008, Fiona gave up her work as a journalist so that she could work with journalist who had not only been exiled, but also threated. The idea to write her very first novel came to her many years ago while she was still a journalist. During this period, she worked on several stories which covered trials and crimes. She tried to understand what the wives of the accused really knew or were informed about the trials that their husbands were facing.