Catherine Blyth is a writer and editor. She spent several years at Fourth Estate, working on literary and commercial fiction, and a range of non-fiction. Since leaving Fourth Estate she has written scripts for the BBC and Channel 5, and contributed to national publications including the Daily Telegraph and The Times. Her first book, The Art of Conversation, is published by John Murray and Gotham (an imprint of Penguin US), and has been translated into sixlanguages. http://catherineblyth.wordpress.com/