VM Whitworth read English at Oxford, where she was one of a tiny minority who chose to specialise in Anglo-Saxon (rather than flee, screaming). She followed this with an MA and D. Phil from the Centre for Medieval Studies in York, and a book (the snappily-titled Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge 2004). She has worked as a lecturer, tour guide, artist’s model and EFL teacher, and she now lives on the island of Orkney. The Bone Thief is her first novel and she is planning her next one.
