David Nicholls trained as an actor before making the switch to writing. He is the author of the novels A Question of Attraction, Starter for Ten, and The Understudy. Nicholls has also written many screenplays for film and television, including the feature film adaptation of Starter for Ten. He lives in London.
Anna Bentinck has worked in radio, television, film, and theater, including leading roles in Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew for the BBC English Repertory Theatre. Her TV credits also include the biography of Charles Dickens’s life as well as the long-running children’s cartoon 64 Zoo Lane.