Born in South Africa, Dominique Valente is a bestselling British author and former journalist for publications like Business Day and Woman & Home. She writes children's fiction under her own name and women's fiction under her pseudonym, Lily Graham. Valente lives in the Sussex countryside with her husband and their English bulldog, Fudge.
Rose Riley is a British actor and has worked extensively across theatre, film and TV. Notable theatre credits include: Macbeth, starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma; award-nominated Othello at the Riverside Studios, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in London’s West End for the National Theatre. Rose is best known on screen as Sandy Talbot in BBC’s Call the Midwife. Rose is also a Michael Chekhov practitioner, teaching acting in leading UK drama schools and institutions.