Janet Tanner

Oriental Hotel Janet Tanner

Marc Notes: Elise Sanderson, wife of moderately successful Hong Kong businessman, thinks she's perfectly happy with considerate hubby Gordon - until she's stranded in 1941 Cairo, after coming to Egypt to be with her dying mother. How, with Japanese all over the map, will she get home? Well, she finds a reluctant knight in Gerald 'Brit' Brittain, wounded RAF vet and scion of a ruthless business family: now on a top-secret intelligence mission, he grudgingly agrees to see to her transport back to Hong Kong.

Contributor Bio:  Tanner, Janet Janet Tanner is a prolific and well-loved author and has twice been shortlisted for RNA awards. Many of her novels are multi-generational sagas, and some - in particular the Hillsbridge Quartet - are based on her own working class background in a Somerset mining community. More recently, she has been writing historical and well-received Gothic novels for Severn House - a reviewer for "Booklist", a trade publication in the United States, calls her "a master of the Gothic genre."Besides publication in the UK and US, Janet's books have also been translated into dozens of languages and published all over the world. Before turning to novels she was a prolific writer of short stories and serials, with hundreds of stories appearing in various magazines and publications worldwide. Janet lives in Radstock, Somerset.