About

Wendy Sacks Jones is a journalist and writer. As Wendy Jones she was a BBC education correspondent, Today programme reporter and current affairs presenter. She turned into a BBC suit for a few years (as deputy company secretary and then head of education policy), but left to go freelance, co-found an education charity, National Numeracy, and write.

She’s on the board of the writers’ organisation, 26, has co-edited a book about the prison charity, Fine Cell Work, and volunteers teaching English to refugees. She lives in south London with her husband and has three grown-up children.

The Candidate’s Husband is her first novel.