Cathy Rentzenbrink grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in London. A former Waterstones bookseller, she is now Project Director of the charity Quick Reads and Associate Editor of The Bookseller magazine. She is also Book Editor at Prima and does a book club with Nikki Bedi on her BBC Radio London show on the first Friday of every month. Her memoir, The Last Act of Love, about the life and death of her brother has been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2016.