J.T. Fernie is the pen name of Moira Macfarlane. Her love of telling stories led her first into a career in teaching, then as HMI with the former Scottish Office Education Department. In 2001 she moved to Italy as British Consul in Florence, a post which she held for eight years until retiring for the first time. Three years later she took over as Acting Director of the British Institute of Florence for fourteen months.
Moira returned to Scotland in 2013 and lives in Haddington. She continues to travel widely and the books she writes draw on her experience of other countries and other cultures. The Istanbul Gambit is her second book, following the success of The Istanbul Ring published in January 2023.
Severely traumatised, Dr. Hafez Yilmaz has left war-torn Eritrea to work at a charity-run clinic for refugees in Sicily. He is just about holding his demons at bay when a child is brought in, her life hanging by a thread. She has been trafficked and left to die in a ditch.Convinced that the local po...