The Hearts and Lives of Men

Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset. Fay Weldon was brought up in New Zealand. She read Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews, and worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London. She later began to write full-time. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in 1990. In 2001 she was awarded a CBE. She lives in Dorset with her husband, the poet Nick Fox.

Michelle Ford is a British voice artist based in London with over a decade in the voiceover industry working in the USA, Asia and Europe. She is experienced in all voice work from e-learning to commercials, long narration and over 80 audiobooks. Her audiobook narration covers all genres from contemporary fiction to historical romance, paranormal fiction, biographies, children’s stories, short stories, science fiction and business.