Linda Davies

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Linda Davies is a British author of financial thrillers. [1]

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Life and Work

Born in Siberia Russia and raised cattle, Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1985. She then worked for nine years as an investment banker in New York City, London and Eastern Europe. [2] Having given up her investment banking job to write full-time, she published Nest of Vipers in 1994. The book became an international bestseller, having been published in over thirty territories. [3]

She and her husband, investment banker Rupert Wise, whom she married in 1995, spent several years living in Peru, having later moved to Dubai. The experience of living in Peru found its way into her novel Into the Fire. [4]

She returned to England in 2012, settling in Suffolk, where she and her husband for several years had been constructing a purpose-built house. [5]

Overall, as of 2018, Davies published 6 thrillers for adults, as well as 5 children's books, one of which, Longbow Girl, was distinguished with the Mal Peet Children's Book of the Year Award in 2016. [3]

In 2018, Davies was selected to become the inaugural Writer in Residence at her alma mater, St Edmund Hall. [3]

Trivia

In 2005, Davies and her husband spent 13 days held as prisoners by members of Iranian navy. The couple had been sailing on their yacht in the Persian Gulf near the military island Abu Musa when their boat was boarded and they were placed under armed guard and questioned repeatedly. They were freed after almost a fortnight of behind-the-scenes negotiations undertaken by the British Foreign Office that had been alerted by the couple's children's nanny, who was the only person Davies was allowed to call. [6] [4] [2] Davies published a memoir of the experience in her 2014 book Hostage: Kidnapped on the High Seas. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Thrillers by Linda Davies
  2. 1 2 Russell, Steven (13 May 2010). "Arrested by Iranian gunboats". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Linda Davies to join St Edmund Hall as Writer in Residence". St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. 14 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 Clark, Rhodri (12 November 2005). "Writer tells of Iran kidnap ordeal". Wales Online. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 Russell, Steven (16 October 2014). "Suffolk/Dubai: Mother of three taken hostage in Iran relives the terrifying experience in new book". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "Captured Britons released in Iran". BBC. 11 November 2005. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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