Santa Montefiore

Santa Montefiore, born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson (born 2 February 1970), is a British author.

Santa is the sister of socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Her parents are Charles Palmer-Tomkinson and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, of Anglo-Argentine background. Her father represented Great Britain in skiing at Olympic level. Her family have been close friends of the Prince of Wales for over 30 years.

Montefiore was born in Winchester, and attended Hanford School from the age of eight to twelve.^[1] She then attended Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset.

Before reading Spanish and Italian at Exeter University, Montefiore worked for a year on an Argentine estancia. She lived for much of the 1990s in Buenos Aires, where she befriended Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, now Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Four of her books are set in Argentina. She is married to writer and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and has two children, Lily and Sasha; she converted to Judaism before the marriage. ^[2] She is a socialite often featured in the gossip columns of upmarket magazines.

Works

• The Butterfly Box (2002) ISBN 0-7089-9402-4
• Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree (2002) ISBN 0-7089-9333-8
• The Forget-me-not Sonata (2003) ISBN 0-340-83171-5
• The Swallow and the Hummingbird (2004) ISBN 0-340-83260-6
• The Last Voyage of the Valentina (2005) ISBN 0-340-83087-5
• The Gypsy Madonna (2006) ISBN 0-340-83090-5
• Sea of Lost Love (2007) ISBN 0-340-84046-3
• The French Gardener (2008) ISBN 141654374-0
• The Italian Matchmaker (2009) ISBN 0-340-84055-2
• The Affair (2010) ISBN 1848949367
• The House by the Sea (2011) ISBN 1849831068
• The Summer House (2012) ISBN 1847379273
• Secrets of the Lighthouse (2013) ISBN 1471100952
• A Mother's Love (2013) ISBN 1471128601
• The Beekeeper's Daughter (2015) ISBN 1476735417
• Songs of Love and War (2015) (The first of The Deverill Chronicles) ISBN 1471135845

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