Santa Montefiore

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Santa Montefiore, born Senta Palmer-Tomkinson, (born 2 February 1970) is a British author.

Santa is the sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Her parents are Charles Palmer-Tomkinson and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, of Anglo-Argentine background. Her father was Prince Charles's ski instructor, and represented his country in the sport at Olympic level.

After reading Spanish and Italian at Exeter University, Montefiore worked for a year on an Argentine Estancia. She lived for much of the 1990s in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before returning to the UK. Several of her books are set in Argentina. She is married to writer and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and has two children; she converted to Judaism before the marriage^[1].

Her real name is Senta Sebag-Montefiore; however, she goes under her pen-name consisting of her nickname, Santa, and her shortened married name, Montefiore. She is a socialite often featured in the gossip columns of upmarket magazines.

[edit] Works

• The Butterfly Box (2002) ISBN 0-7089-9402-4
• Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree (2002) ISBN 0-7089-9333-8
• The Forget-me-not Sonata (2003) ISBN 0-340-83171-5
• The Swallow and the Hummingbird (2004) ISBN 0-340-83260-6
• The Last Voyage of the Valentina (2005) ISBN 0-340-83087-5

"The Gypsy Madonna" (2006) "Sea of Lost Love" (2007)

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