Laura Thompson

I trained as a dancer at Tring Park school before getting into Oxford
I then intended to work in theatre but I sent a column I'd written to the Times and was offered a job - which set my new course as a writer. Published my first book which won the Somerset Maugham award, wrote a couple of biographies and other non-fiction books. My first TV script is currently in development and I am now adapting two of my books for screen.