Helen Giltrow

Helen Giltrow was born and brought up in Cheltenham and read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. She has worked extensively in publishing, including ten years as a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press. She went freelance as an editor in 2001 and has since worked on a range of fiction, non-fiction and education titles. THE DISTANCE is her first novel.

Helens writing has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award and the Telegraph Novel in a Year Competition. She divides her time between her home in Oxford and her partners house in Witney.