Carla Banks grew up in a scholarly family. Her father, an Eastern European cavalry officer, came to the UK as a wartime refugee where he met and married her half-Irish mother. He told his children stories of his childhood in a country that had been destroyed by the war. Carla Banks has been an academic for most of her working life and is fascinated by the power of language. She lives in the north of England and now writes full time.

Praise for “The Forest of Souls.’‘‘A haunting legacy of war’ Frances Fyfield‘Banks… has managed to bring disturbingly alive the history of the Stalinist terrors and the brutal Nazi persecutions’ Daily Mail‘A satisfying crime novel’ TLS‘A breakthrough book… watch out for Carla Banks’ Observer

Carla Banks grew up in a scholarly family. Her father, an Eastern European cavalry officer, came to the UK as a wartime refugee where he met and married her half-Irish mother. He told his children stories of his childhood in a country that had been destroyed by the war. Carla Banks has been an academic for most of her working life and is fascinated by the power of language. She lives in the north of England and now writes full time.

Praise for “The Forest of Souls.’‘‘A haunting legacy of war’ Frances Fyfield‘Banks… has managed to bring disturbingly alive the history of the Stalinist terrors and the brutal Nazi persecutions’ Daily Mail‘A satisfying crime novel’ TLS‘A breakthrough book… watch out for Carla Banks’ Observer

Carla Banks grew up in a scholarly family. Her father, an Eastern European cavalry officer, came to the UK as a wartime refugee where he met and married her half-Irish mother. He told his children stories of his childhood in a country that had been destroyed by the war. Carla Banks has been an academic for most of her working life and is fascinated by the power of language. She lives in the north of England and now writes full time.

Praise for “The Forest of Souls.’‘‘A haunting legacy of war’ Frances Fyfield‘Banks… has managed to bring disturbingly alive the history of the Stalinist terrors and the brutal Nazi persecutions’ Daily Mail‘A satisfying crime novel’ TLS‘A breakthrough book… watch out for Carla Banks’ Observer