Rhonda Carrier settled in London in the mid-1990s, after studying languages and literature at Cambridge and the Sorbonne in Paris. For many years she worked as a writer and editor for leading London guides and listings magazines, as well as publishing award-winning short fiction. She currently lives mainly in Manchester, with her novelist husband Conrad William and sons Ethan, Ripley, and Zac. She is also the author of Frommer’s Brittany with Your Family, and regularly writes about family travel for Conde Nast Traveller and other magazines, newspapers, and websites.