Simon Longe was born in Berkshire in 1946. After receiving his education at Wellington College, he spent most of his life in London or Norfolk.
After stints in agriculture and the wine trade, he worked for various property companies in Central London, Spain, the West Country and East Anglia. He used to live on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.
Bella is a beautiful and feisty undergraduate when she is badly beaten and raped by Jasper Crediton, another student. For his own purposes her father connives in a cover-up and Crediton escapes justice. This leaves Bella with a deep sense of betrayal and fear of physical violence. Some years later s...