Martina Cole was born and brought up in Essex. She is the bestselling author of twelve novels set in London's gangland, and her most recent two paperbacks, as well as her latest hardback, have gone straight to No. 1 in the Sunday Times on first publication.

Her first novel, DANGEROUS LADY, was an instant bestseller and became a highly successful TV drama series.

Since then Martina Cole has written eleven more bestselling novels set in the criminal underworld, one of which, THE JUMP, was also made into a successful television drama.

TWO WOMEN is an explosive novel of East End violence, the terrors of prison life and the pursuit of justice against all odds. Martina Cole has created a heroine whose heartbreaking story will stay with you forever.

Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston’s East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashes her husband’s skull with a claw hammer in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that her four children are safe from harm.

When she is celled up with murderess Matilda Enderby, their fates become inextricably linked. And no one – least of all Sue – could have predicted the consequences..