Charlotte Philby is a critically acclaimed author, journalist and screenwriter. She started her career as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist at the Independent , where she was shortlisted for the Cudlipp Prize for investigative reporting, and worked as a contributing editor and features writer at Marie Claire. Charlotte is currently adapting one of her novels for film with the support of the BFI . Lost Girls is her seventh novel and the second book in the Farrow & Chang series. She was born in London and lives with her family in Bristol.