Laura Shepherd-Robinson worked in politics for nearly twenty years before re-entering normal life to complete an MA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, Blood & Sugar, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and won the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown and the Specsavers/Crimefest Best Debut Novel prize. Her second novel, Daughters of Night, was shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Book of the Year, the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award, and the HWA Gold Crown. The Square of Sevens is her third novel and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller on publication. She lives in London with her husband Adrian.

From fortune-telling booths at the Bartholomew Fair to the salons of the feuding families at the centre of Georgian society, a young girl known as Red sets out on a mission to uncover the secrets of her past and to reclaim a future that’s rightfully hers in the stunning new novel from rising star Laura Shepherd-Robinson.