Mary Paulson-Ellis lives in Edinburgh. Her critically acclaimed debut, The Other Mrs Walker was a Times bestseller and Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. Her second, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, was long-listed for the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime novel and a Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and was awarded the inaugural Curtis Brown Prize for Fiction and the Maverick Award from the Tom McGrath Trust. Her non-fiction and short stories have featured in the Guardian and on BBC Radio 4. In 2019 Val McDermid named her one of the most compelling LGBTQ+ writers working today. Emily Noble's Disgrace is her third novel.