Deborah Lawrenson is a British novelist and journalist. She was educated at Blackheath High School, The British School of Brussels and Eastbourne College, and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She trained as a journalist on the Kentish Times, then worked for The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Woman's Journal. Her novels Hot Gossip, Idol Chatter, The Moonbathers, The Art of Falling and Songs of Blue and Gold were all published by Random House UK. The Lantern was her first to be published in the United States, by HarperCollins, and by Orion in the UK. It was featured on Channel 4's The TV Book Club in 2011, and short listed for Romantic Novel of the Year 2012 by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She lives in Kent and Provence, and posts regularly on her blog.