Tracy is the author of 10 novels. She is best known for the international bestseller ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring’, which has been translated into 43 languages, sold over 5 million copies worldwide, been made into a film, and will soon be performed as an opera. Her most recent novel is ‘A Single Thread’, set in and around 1930s Winchester Cathedral. She grew up in Washington DC and in 1984 moved to London, where she lives with her husband and son.