Kim Sherwood is a novelist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her award-winning debut novel Testament was released in 2018, and in 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. A Wild & True Relation, following a woman who joins a smugglers' crew in eighteenth-century Devon, was published by Virago in 2023. A Spy Like Me is the second in a series of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe.