Daphne Kapsali was born in Athens in 1978, but that was a bit of a mistake on the part of the universe, because she's actually a Londoner. She lived in that wonderful, terrible city very happily on and off since 1996, doing a variety of fun and badly-paid jobs, until she realised she was a writer, whereupon she promptly made herself homeless and unemployed to spend a few months living alone on a small Greek island and writing full-time. She dubbed this project 100 days of solitude and the result, one hundred stories brought together under the same title, is now available in paperback and on Kindle. you can't name an unfinished thing, also produced during her stint as a reclusive author, is her first published novel. Both will be bestsellers.

When she's done being a recluse on remote islands, Daphne will be moving back to London, where she plans to carry on writing and take over the world with her crazy genius boyfriend.