Rosie Dastgirās debut novel, A Small Fortune, is published by Quercus in the UK and by Penguin Riverhead in the US.
She was born and brought up in Bedford, England, to a Pakistani father and an English mother and was educated at Oxford and New York universities.
Rosie worked in documentary development at the BBC, and script-writing for UK independent companies.
In 2005, after living in Whitechapel, east London for ten years, she moved to Brooklyn, New York.
Photo: Ismael Ramirez