Catriona Ross has been writing professionally for fourteen years. A freelancer based in the Cape Winelands, South Africa, she’s a former staff writer and features editor on Cosmopolitan, and former features/assistant editor on O, The Oprah Magazine. Her articles have appeared in Sunday Times, Sunday Independent, Style, Psychologies, Property, Fairlady, Femina, Cosmopolitan, O and Winelands Living, among other titles. Her first novel, The Love Book, was published in 2005, and her online creative writing programme for aspirant novelists, The Peacock Book Project, launched in 2012: www.peacockproject.net. Besides writing, her passions include painting, drawing, playing the piano, dancing the Argentine tango with her husband, and teaching her toddler daughter to turn the pages of books.