Ruth Foster is from London. She studied law and qualified as a barrister, before branching into publishing and communications. She has spent her working life creating successful books and published works. She writes plays, articles and short stories.

A Perfect Year? is her first novel. She was inspired to write it by the round robin letters she still receives every year, and the stories they tell about all our lives.

She has two grown-up children, and lives on a smallholding in Devon with her husband, two hens and cat.