Diane Pearson was born in London but spent a large part of her childhood with her grandparents in a village on the Surrey/Kent borders. She is the bestselling author of Csardas, The Summer of the Barshinskeys and Voices of Summer, is President of the Romantic Novelists' Association and is Senior Editor for Transworld Publishers. In 1994 she won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year. She now lives in London and is married to Richard Leech, the actor.
