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Vanora Bennett became a journalist almost by accident. Having learned Russian and been hired after university by Reuters, she was catapulted out of the classical-music life of her family and straight into the adrenaline-charged realm of conflict reporting.

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That led to a similar job in Africa, commuting between Angola and Mozambique and writing about death, destruction, diamonds and disease, and later to a posting in a country that stopped being the Soviet Union three months after she arrived. She spent much of the early s in smoky taxis in the Caucasus mountains, covering a series of small post-Soviet conflicts that built up to the war in Chechnya.

Her fascination with the cultural and religious differences between Russians and the many peoples once ruled by Moscow grew into a book on the Chechen war Crying Wolf: The Return of War to Chechnya. A second, more light-hearted book followed, about post-Soviet Russia's illegal caviar trade.

Vanora Bennett studied Russian at Oxford University and in the USSR.

She now leads a more sedate life in North London with her husband and two small sons. Since , she has written four novels set in the English past. Midnight in St Petersburg , set in Russia, is the fifth. It's about a musical family of violin-makers caught up in the Revolution, which means it combines a lot of the strands of her own past experience that until now she had thought were just plain incompatible: music, Russia, and pity for the ordinary people caught up in big, uncontrollable conflicts.

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What was the inspiration for Portrait of an Unknown Woman? The first glimmering of the idea for this book came from an exhibition of Holbein drawings at the National Portrait Gallery about 10 years ago.