Meg Waite Clay­ton is The New York Times best­selling author of eight pre­vi­ous nov­els, includ­ing The Post­mistress of Paris, The Last Train to Lon­don, and The Wednes­day Sis­ters. Her books have been pub­lished in twen­ty-four lan­guages, and have been final­ists for the PEN Bell­wether, the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, and the Langum Prize.