Joy Lynn Fielding is a sucker for happy endings. She believes,however, that if characters don't suffer along the way, they won't fully appreciate being happy. Not all of her characters thank her for this viewpoint, but what do they know?Joy lives in a small English market town, but also inhabits anumber of fictional worlds at any one time, reflecting what she'swriting and what she's reading. She has a tendency to shareenthusiastically with anyone who will listen the latest fascinating facts she's stumbled across in her research for books. Thankfully she has a very patient Labrador, who has a gift for looking as though he's interested in what she's saying while he waits for the food to arrive.