Emma Flint was born and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne. She graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA in English Language and Literature, and later completed a novel-writing course at the Faber Academy. She lives and works in London. Since childhood, she has been drawn to true-crime stories, developing an encyclopaedic knowledge of real-life murder cases from the early 20th century. Her first novel, Little Deaths, was longlisted for the Women?s Prize for Fiction, for the Desmond Elliott Prize, for the Crime Writers? Association Gold Dagger Award, and for The Guardian?s Not the Booker Prize. Other Women is her second novel.