Jennifer Ryan is the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Spies of Shilling Lane, The Kitchen Front, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle, and The Underground Library. She was previously a book editor with The Economist, DK, and the BBC. After marrying, she moved from London to Washington, D.C., and now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. Her novels are inspired by her grandmother's tales of the war in Britain.