A Stepney Girl's Secret

Jean Fullerton is the British author of 11 historical novels, nearly all set in the East End of London where she was born and spent most of her working life. She is a qualified District and Queen's nurse who worked first as a Sister in charge of a team, and then as a District Nurse tutor. She is also a qualified teacher and spent twelve years lecturing on community nursing studies at a London university. She now writes full-time.

Heather Long is a RADA-trained English actor and narrator based in London who has voiced over 100 audiobooks and was recently nominated for a 2025 Speakies Award for Caroline Darian’s memoir I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again. Her credits span contemporary fiction (Holly Bourne, Abigail Bergstrom), classics (the complete works of Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf), and children’s literature (Enid Blyton). Heather’s voice work has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds, Channel 4, and The Discovery Channel, with commercial campaigns for Tesco, British Airways, and Virgin.