Victoria Darke

Victoria Darke began her working life as a broadcast journalist at the BBC, before moving into the freelance world. She’s worked for outlets including the Telegraph, Time Out and Al Jazeera, and spent six-years living and working in Qatar. Nowadays she balances novel writing with lecturing in journalism at Kingston University.

Victoria is the author of three novels writing as Victoria Scott - Patience, Grace and The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave. Patience, her debut, was the Booksellers’ Association Book of the Month.

The House in the Water is her first novel writing as Victoria Darke.

She lives on an island in the Thames with her husband and two children and a cat called Alice.

You can follow Victoria on X @toryscott and on Instagram and TikTok @VictoriaScottAuthor