Laura Thompson

LAURA THOMPSON won the Somerset Maugham award for her first book, The Dogs, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters. Other books include the critically-acclaimed Life in a Cold Climate, a biography of Nancy Mitford; the Crime Writers' Association Award-nominated Rex v Edith Thompson; and Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life.

She has appeared in several Christie documentaries, including Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie (PBS).