Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British academic, broadcaster, novelist and a professor at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of two historical thrillers, Ghostwalk (2007) and The Coral Thief (2009), a biography of Charles Darwin called Darwin and the Barnacle (2003) and 2,200-year history of Darwin's predecessors called Darwin's Ghosts. Stott lives and works in London and Norwich. She has three children. She has just published an account of her childhood growing up in a Christian fundamentalist cult called the Exclusive Brethren called In The Days of Rain and begun a third novel set in post-Roman Londinium. Wikipedia