Bamford, Emma: - Emma Bamford is an author and journalist who has worked for The Independent, the Daily Express, the Daily Mirror, Sailing Today, and Boat International. She spent several years sailing among some of the world's most beautiful islands and wrote two travel memoirs about her experiences, Casting Off and Untie the Lines. A graduate of the University of East Anglia's Prose Fiction MA, she lives in the United Kingdom. Deep Water is her first novel. Find out more at EmmaBamford.com.