Lucy Foley is the bestselling author of seven novels, including her series featuring neurosurgeon Dr. Emma Beckett. She was born in London and spent the first years of her life in South Africa, before moving to Australia at age five. Her father was a former headmaster who fought in World War II
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Her mother waited on tables at the Berkeley Hotel in Sydney, where she met her future husband. They moved to England when Lucy was six years old and then to New Zealand, where she lived for the next twenty-five years, often relocating with her father. She returned to England when Lucy was in her teens and attended boarding school there.
After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature, she began teaching English and History at a London comprehensive school.