Diane Chamberlain is the award winning and bestselling author of The Midwife's Confession, The Lost Daughterand The Shadow Wife. Prior to her writing career, she was a psychotherapist in private practice, working primarily with adolescents. Diane's background in psychology has given her a keen interest in understanding the way people tick, as well as the background necessary to create real, living, breathing characters. Diane lives with photographer John Pagliuca in North Carolina and has three married stepdaughters and three grandchildren.