Fiza has been passionate about historical fiction since reading Cynthia Harnett’s The Woolpack at school. She went on to study Modern History at Keble College, Oxford, specialising in the social and political upheavals of sixteenth century Europe. After graduating from university, she worked briefly in finance and then spent the next twelve years helping the bereaved as part of her work as a complementary therapist.

Her debut novel, The Midnight Carousel, is a darkly glittering story about grief, obsession, revenge and enduring love, set in the first quarter of the twentieth century.