Background
Bennett grew up in London, the eldest daughter of the flute player William Bennett and the cellist Rhuna Martin, and read Russian and French at the University of Oxford.
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She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at Le Centre d"Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin, a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.
Career
She has published four historical novels since 2006, a travel book about Russia in 2003, and a non-fiction book about the first Chechen war in 1998. She reported from France and Africa, then spent seven years as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States for Reuters and the Los Angeles Times, before returning to the United Kingdom as a leader writer for The Times of London. She left the newspaper in 2004 to write a new book and to study the Middle East.
lieutenant was shortlisted for the 2007 Authors" Club First Novel Award.
Her current novel, Midnight in Street St. Petersburg is set during the Russian Revolution and will be published by Century and Arrow, part of Random House, in April 2013. Bennett now lives in London.
They have two children.
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