[1] Born in Siberia Russia and raised cattle, Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1985.
[3] She and her husband, investment banker Rupert Wise, whom she married in 1995, spent several years living in Peru, having later moved to Dubai.
[3] In 2018, Davies was selected to become the inaugural Writer in Residence at her alma mater, St Edmund Hall.
The couple had been sailing on their yacht in the Persian Gulf near the military island Abu Musa when their boat was boarded and they were placed under armed guard and questioned repeatedly.
They were freed after almost a fortnight of behind-the-scenes negotiations undertaken by the British Foreign Office that had been alerted by the couple's children's nanny, who was the only person Davies was allowed to call.