I am a freelance journalist and author of five non-fiction books on medical and social history. My first book, The Knife Man, is a biography of the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter. My second, Wedlock, tells the story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, a rich heiress tricked into marriage by a fortune-hunter. It was a Channel 4 TV Book Club choice and no 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. My third book, How to Create the Perfect Wife, is the story of Thomas Day, a philanthropist who trained two foundlings in a bid to create his perfect wife. My fourth, The Mesmerist, is the tale of the doctor who introduced hypnotism to Victorian London. My new book, published in April 2020 in the UK and US, is about Endell Street Military Hospital which was run and staffed by women in London in the First World War.