Jane Yardley is an English author, raised in a village in 1960s Essex,[1] (where most of her novels are set).
She went to university in London and gained a Ph.D. degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School.
[2] Although living in London she spends much of her time travelling around the world co-ordinating medical trials for a small Japanese pharmaceutical company,[3] indeed she says that her first novel Painting Ruby Tuesday (2003) was written on aeroplanes.
Jane Yardley herself experiences synaesthesia and it inspired her to write the book.
[3] Her novel Dancing with Dr Kildare was published by Doubleday on 2 January 2008.