Gill Paul writes historical fiction about real women, famous families and the private consequences of war or political upheaval. The Secret Wife links a modern family mystery with Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov and the final years of imperial Russia, while Another Woman’s Husband connects Wallis Simpson and Princess Diana through two periods of royal history. The Manhattan Girls imagines the friendship circle around Dorothy Parker in 1920s New York, and Jackie and Maria examines the complicated relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas through Aristotle Onassis. Paul’s novels are accessible, dual-timeline or biographical in approach, using documented public lives as frameworks for imagined private scenes. They suit readers of royal historical fiction, Romanov novels and twentieth-century women’s stories. Read more Less