Esther Veltheim is a New York Times bestselling author. She began her career as a journalist and had success as a writer of light-hearted, erotic, and romantic fiction. Her first novel, The Summer Before the War, was published in 2007 and has had more than one million copies sold globally. A year later she followed it with What I Did for Love and then released her first collection of short stories, Encounters
Veltheim's novels have been translated into twenty-one languages and have been on the bestseller lists in Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Brazil. She is also the author of The Other Side of You: Ten Women Tell Their Own Stories and co-author of A Thousand Words: A Personal Dictionary for Writers. She lives with her husband and two children near New York City.
You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.Esther Veltheim
Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.Esther Veltheim
