Leonora Meriel is the author of The Unity Game (published May 2017, Granite Cloud) called an ambitious and thought-provoking novel by Kirkus Reviews. Her debut novel The Woman Behind the Waterfall (October 2016) was hailed as strange and beautiful by writer Esther Freud, a literary work of art by Richmond Magazine and an intoxicating world by Kirkus Reviews. She is one of a select group of independent authors chosen by Waterstones - the leading bookshop chain in the UK - to be stocked nationwide. Leonora grew up in London but has lived in New York, Kyiv and Barcelona. She worked in business and then as an entrepreneur, before turning to writing full-time. Read her full biography at www.leonorameriel.com.