Sarah Sands lives in Norfolk by the ruins of a medieval Cistercian abbey and in London by the remains of BBC Television Centre. In between editing two newspapers, Reader's Digest, and BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she has written three novels. She writes and broadcasts, chairs a political think tank, advises companies on strategy and communications and sits on the boards of Index on Censorship and London First. She is an honorary fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and Goldsmith's College, University of London.