Meet the author - Rosie Alison

Rosie Alison read English at Oxford. She spent over ten years working in television, as a producer-director of arts documentaries (her director credits include The South Bank Show, Omnibus and Grand Designs). Currently Head of Development at Heyday Films in the UK she has recently co-produced two feature films (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and the Michael Caine film Is There Anybody There?). Her debut novel, The Very Thought of You (Alma 2009) was Longlisted for RNA Romantic Novel of the Year 2010 and for Le Prince Maurice Prize for Literary Love Stories. Rosie will tell us about her transition into novel writing.