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Mary Chamberlain is the internationally bestselling author of four previous novels: The Mighty Jester, The Dressmaker of Dachau, The Hidden (Oneworld, 2019) and The Forgotten (Oneworld, 2021). She is also the author of non-fiction books on women’s history and Caribbean history, including Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, the first book published by Virago Press. She lives in London with her husband, the political theorist Stein Ringen.

Praise for The Hidden:‘A powerful and raw, elegantly written, character piece dealing with inhumanity and endurance, firmly grounded in real events.’ Herald‘Recent novels such as The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society have taken the occupation as their subject, but none so potently as Mary Chamberlain’s The Hidden.’  Sunday Times‘A heart-breaking yet hope-filled tale.’ Woman's Own magazine